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Heroic earthling Flash Gordon saves the world from the nefarious Ming the Merciless in this lavish, intentionally campy adaptation of the famous sci-fi comic strip. The story is as basic as space operas get: Ming (Max von Sydow) has developed a plan to destroy the Earth, and Flash (Sam J. Jones) and ...more
MPAA Rating: PG | Year: 1980 | Running Time: 111 minutes
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$15.99FLASH GORDON (1980) / (WS RMST SPEC SUB AC3 DOL)
A director treads a precarious artistic line when setting out to consciously make a campy film. How exactly does one take seriously a film that asks not to be taken seriously? Mike Hodges answers that question in Flash Gordon. Near the end of this film, Dale Arden announces to Flash, while he's in the middle of a possibly fatal fistfight, "Flash, I love you but we only have 14 hours to save the Earth!" That line does a good job of encapsulating the movie's goofy charm. Full of bright primary ...more
- Sam Jones - Flash Gordon
- Melody Anderson - Dale Arden
- Topol - Dr. Hans Zarkov
- Max von Sydow - Emperor Ming
- Ornella Muti - Princess Aura
- Kenny Baker
- Andrew Bradford
- Celeste
- Robbie Coltrane - Man at Airport
- Suzanne Danielle - Serving Girl
- Peter Duncan - Young Treeman
- Leon Greene - Colonel in Battle Control Room
- William Hootkins - Munson
- Tiny Ross
- Mike Hodges - Director
- Bernard Williams - Executive Producer
- Bernard Williams - Producer
- Dino de Laurentiis - Producer
- Michael Allin - Screenwriter
- Lorenzo Semple, Jr. - Screenwriter
- Frank Van Der Veer - Supervising Art Director
- Danilo Donati - Costume Designer
- Brian Cook - First Assistant Director
- William Kronick - Second Unit Director
- Malcolm Cooke - Editor
- Queen - Composer (Music Score)
- Howard Blake - Composer (Music Score)
- Danilo Donati - Production Designer
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