Flash must then expertly avoid Aura's seduction and find Dale to prevent Ming from keeping his promise to completely destroy Earth. Things do not go well on Mongo Dale is enslaved for the emperor's pleasure and Flash narrowly avoids execution thanks to Ming's daughter, Princess Aura (Ornella Muti). He opines that the disasters are coming from outer space, and tricks Flash and Dale into boarding a rocket that he flies to the planet Mongo to confront Emperor Ming. Hans Zarkov (Topol), who has clearly gone mad. Jones) is aboard a small plane with travel agent Dale Arden (Melody Anderson) when a meteor shower caused by Ming sends their plane crashing into the greenhouse of Dr. New York Jets football hotshot Flash Gordon (Sam J. "How peaceful it looks," Ming notes before sending earthquakes, floods, fires and other natural disasters across the universe to plague the planet. "I'm bored, what plaything can you offer me today?" Emperor Ming the Merciless (Max von Sydow) asks his subordinate, General Klytus (Peter Wyngarde), in the film's opening scene. Crank up the Queen soundtrack and grab a beer, as Flash Gordon looks downright fantastic on this new 4K Ultra HD release from Arrow Video! Colorful, quotable and entertaining, Flash Gordon sees its hero fighting a merciless emperor to save the world in constantly raucous fashion. Development changed that notion, and by the time Hodges ( Get Carter) began shooting from Lorenzo Semple Jr.'s screenplay, Flash Gordon had become unabashed camp. A notorious bomb for Universal, Flash Gordon is based on the 1930s comic strip by Alex Raymond, and power producer Dino De Laurentiis originally pitched the project as a straightforward action epic. Mike Hodges' 1980 camp classic Flash Gordon is a bit of an acquired taste, and, while some of my buddies grew up loving this film, it is one that I did not watch till a decade or so ago when I was in my twenties.
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