A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
- Nominated for 3 BAFTA Awards
- 2 wins & 14 nominations total
Max von Sydow
- The Emperor Ming
- (as Max Von Sydow)
- Director
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFlash jumping towards the camera screaming "YEAH!" was improvised by Sam J. Jones. Nobody could figure out how to end the movie.
- GoofsAt the very beginning of the film, Ming and his henchman are discussing "an obscure body in the SK system", which the inhabitants refer to as the planet "Earth", pronounced as if the word is completely foreign to them. However, at that moment, Ming activates a button on his console labeled "Earth Quake".
- Quotes
Dale Arden: Ming's not unbeatable. With all his men, he couldn't even kill Flash.
Prince Vultan: [incredulous] Gordon's alive?
- Crazy creditsWhen the ending title appears, a hand picks up Ming's ring and Ming is heard laughing. A "?" appears, making it "THE END?"
- Alternate versionsThe Wide Screen VHS version released by BMG contains all the cut scenes in their complete and uncut version.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Queen: Flash (1980)
Featured review
Yes, the plot is silly, yes the dialogue is cheesy and yes, some of the special effects are badly done, but nonetheless it is great fun. Like Rocky Horror Picture Show, Congo and Jingle All the Way, Flash Gordon is a sort of guilty pleasure of mine. The costumes are quite extravagant and the sets are exotic. Then you have an irresistibly killer soundtrack from Queen, who also brought us the classics We Will Rock You and Bohemian Rhapsody. The direction is pretty good and the acting is surprisingly great. Sam J Jones is bad with his cheesiness but he was fun besides, thank goodness he wasn't bland like Justin Whalin from Dungeons and Dungeons, and Melody Anderson is charming and alluring as Dale. Brian Blessed is very hammy as Vultran but he is great fun regardless and Topol, who was so superb in Fiddler on the Roof, is memorable as Dr Hans Zarkov. And while Ornella Muti is a wonderfully witty and sexy Princess Aura, it is Max Von Sydow who walks away with the picture, pantomime of course but sinister as well and I appreciated that. Overall, not perfect and camp personified, but very enjoyable. 7/10 Bethany Cox
- TheLittleSongbird
- Mar 28, 2010
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- Countries of origin
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- Language
- Also known as
- Флеш Ґордон
- Filming locations
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Box office
- Budget
- $20,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $27,107,960
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,934,030
- Dec 7, 1980
- Gross worldwide
- $27,185,209
- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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