Rocket Ship (1938)
BIG FEATURE SENSATION! Amazing STRANGE WORLD ADVENTURES! From Alex Raymond's Famous Newspaper Strip
72 min
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".
- Release date
- March 1, 1938
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $350,000
Crew
- Buster Crabbe · Archive footage
- Jean Rogers · Archive footage
- Charles Middleton · Archive footage
- Priscilla Lawson · Archive footage
- Frank Shannon · Archive footage
- Richard Alexander · Archive footage
- Jack 'Tiny' Lipson · Archive footage
- James Pierce · Archive footage
- Theodore Lorch · Archive footage
- Earl Askam · Archive footage
- Ford Beebe · Director
- Robert F. Hill · Director
- Alex Raymond · Writer
- Ella O'Neill · Writer
- Basil Dickey · Writer
- George H. Plympton · Writer
- Henry MacRae · Producer
- Jerome Ash · Cinematographer
- Richard Fryer · Cinematographer
- Saul A. Goodkind · Editor
- Louis Sackin · Editor
- Alvin Todd · Editor
- Edward Todd · Editor