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Flash Gordon (serial)

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Flash Gordon is a 1936 film serial which tells the story of three people from Earth who travel to the planet Mongo to fight the evil Emperor Ming the Merciless. It stars Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Priscilla Lawson, Frank Shannon and Richard Alexander.

It was written by Basil Dickey, Ella O'Neill, George H. Plympton and Frederick Stephani from the comic strip by Alex Raymond. It was directed by Stephani and Ray Taylor (uncredited).

There were thirteen episodes:

  1. Planet Of Peril
  2. Tunnel Of Terror
  3. Captured By Shark Men
  4. Battling The Sea Beast
  5. The Destroying Ray
  6. Flaming Torture
  7. Shattering Doom
  8. Tournament Of Death
  9. Fighting The Fire Dragon
  10. The Unseen Peril
  11. In The Claws Of The Tigron
  12. Trapped In The Turret
  13. Rocketing To Earth

see also science fiction film