Flash Gordon

A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.

Cast

Sam J. Jones

as Flash Gordon

Melody Anderson

as Dale Arden

Max von Sydow

as The Emperor Ming

Chaim Topol

as Dr. Hans Zarkov

Ornella Muti

as Princess Aura

Timothy Dalton

as Prince Barin

Brian Blessed

as Prince Vultan

Peter Wyngarde

as Klytus

Mariangela Melato

as Kala

John Osborne

as Arborian Priest

Reviews

tmdb27219454

One of the least appreciated movies made in my lifetime. Done right after the glory that was The Empire Strikes Back and released to a public that had forgotten who Flash Gordon was or what the 1930's serials with Larry "Buster" Crabbe represented. Although the public was drooling desire for more hi...

JPV852

Campy and fun science fiction fantasy-adventure flick has some cheesy but colorful and good production designs and the performances for the most part were fine, with Max Von Sydow lending prestige to a goofy character and Sam J. Jones was okay in the lead, but he's really not asked to do a whole lot...

CinemaSerf

Now then, anyone who thinks that Max von Sydov's best film was "the Seventh Seal" (1957) really does need to get their priorities right: forget Ingmar Bergman - it has to be this marvellously camp effort from Mike Hodges and Dino de Laurentiis that allows him to act the megalomanic whilst dressing u...

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