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Rocket Ship

BIG FEATURE SENSATION! Amazing STRANGE WORLD ADVENTURES! From Alex Raymond's Famous Newspaper Strip

6.3(5)19381h 22m1

A heavy condensation of the 1936 serial Flash Gordon, with altered musical score. Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov visit the planet Mongo to thwart the evil schemes of Emperor Ming the Merciless, who has set his planet on a collision course with Earth. Released abroad as "Flash Gordon" for countries not interested in booking the serial, and never shown in the USA before 1950, where the title was changed to "Rocket Ship".

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Status
Released
Budget
$350K
Box office
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Language
English
  • emperor
  • space travel
  • space war
  • end of world
  • space opera
  • heroic mission
  • evil alien
  • evil dictator
  • feature version of movie serial

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNRSource: Research: IMDb is wrong1 Jan 1950
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1 Mar 1938

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Rocket Ship was released on 1 March 1938.

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    CinemaSerf

    6/19/2022

    6/10

    I loved these sci-fi escapades years ago when I was a kid and the serials were shown at dinner-time by the BBC. I haven't seen them since, and to be honest was rather disappointed by the way in which the episodes had been rather clumsily butchered into 75 minutes. Not that there ever was much jeopardy with the plot: "Flash" (Buster Crabbe) has to defeat the devious plots of "Ming" (Charles Middleton) with the aid of …

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