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Rocket Ship (1938)

Rocket Ship (1938)

Action Science Fiction Adventure

BIG FEATURE SENSATION! Amazing STRANGE WORLD ADVENTURES! From Alex Raymond's Famous Newspaper Strip

Release Date: 1938, March 1
Directors: Frederick Stephani, Ray Taylor
Countries: United States of America
Production: Universal Pictures
Cast: Charles Middleton, Richard Alexander, Theodore Lorch, Jean Rogers, Buster Crabbe, Richard Tucker, Frank Shannon, Priscilla Lawson, Jack 'Tiny' Lipson, James Pierce, Earl Askam, George Cleveland

Overview:

A heavy condensation of the 1936 serial Flash Gordon, with altered musical score. Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov visit the planet Mongo to thwart the evil schemes of Emperor Ming the Merciless, who has set his planet on a collision course with Earth. Released abroad as "Flash Gordon" for countries not interested in booking the serial, and never shown in the USA before 1950, where the title was changed to "Rocket Ship".

Keywords:

space war space travel space opera emperor evil alien end of world heroic mission evil dictator feature version of movie serial