Many props and other elements in the film were recycled from earlier Universal productions.Stedman, however, writes that it was "reportedly" $350,000. According to Harmon and Glut, Flash Gordon had a budget of over a million dollars.In fact, however, only Poff's character died, or rather was killed by Ming in an act of fury and replaced by Lorch's High Priest but the scene was cut from the final print. Early film fan historians claimed that actor Lon Poff, playing the first of Ming's two high priests, died shortly after production began and was replaced by Theodore Lorch.Richard Alexander helped to design his own costume, which included a leather chest plate painted gold.Glenn Strange in uncredited roles wore the "Gocko" lobster-clawed dragon costume and also appears as one of Ming's soldiers.Crash Corrigan, who would later star in other serials, wore a modified gorilla suit to portray the "orangopoid" seen in chapters 8 and 9.Eddie Parker served as a stand-in and stunt double for Buster Crabbe.Lon Poff as First High Priest (uncredited).Flash, Dale and Zarkov make a triumphant return to Earth. Ming orders that the Earth people be caught and killed, but Flash and his friends escape from the Emperor's clutches, and Ming is apparently killed in the flames of the "sacred temple of the Great God Tao". She tries to help Flash and his friends to return to Earth - but Ming plots to kill them. Barin hides Dale in the catacombs, but Aura has her tracked by a tigron.Īura realizes the error of her ways, and falls in love with Barin. Zarkov invents a machine that makes Flash invisible. Ming is determined to have Flash executed. Still determined to win Flash, Aura has him drugged to make him lose his memory.įlash recovers his memory. Ming insists that Flash fight a tournament of death against a masked opponent, revealed to be Barin, and then against a vicious orangopoid.įlash survives the tournament with Aura's help, after she discovers the weak point of the orangopoid. Zarkov saves the Hawkmen's city in the sky from falling, earning Flash and his friends King Vultan's gratitude. Zarkov befriends Prince Barin, and they race to the rescue.ĭale pretends to fall in love with King Vultan in order to save Flash, Barin and Thun, who are put to work in the Hawkmen's atomic furnaces.įlash, Barin, Thun and Zarkov create an explosion in the atomic furnaces.ĭr. Trying to keep Flash away from Dale, Aura destroys the mechanisms that regulate the underwater city.įlash, Dale, Aura and Thun escape from the underwater city, but are captured by King Vultan and the Hawkmen. At Ming's order, Kala forces Flash to fight with a giant octosak in a chamber filling with water.Īura and Thun rescue Flash from the octosak. Flash meets Prince Thun, leader of the Lion Men, and the pair return to the palace to rescue Dale.įlash stops the wedding ceremony, but he and Dale are captured by King Kala, ruler of the Shark Men and a loyal follower of Ming. Ming's daughter, Princess Aura, tries to spare Flash's life.Īura helps Flash to escape as Zarkov is put to work in Ming's laboratory and Dale is prepared for her wedding to Ming. They find that the planet is ruled by the cruel Emperor Ming, who lusts after Dale and sends Flash to fight in the arena. Alexis Zarkov takes off in a rocket ship to Mongo with Flash Gordon and Dale Arden as his assistants. The planet Mongo is on a collision course with Earth.
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