ROCKETSHIP (1938) Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers & Charles Middleton | Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure | B&W

The serial Flash Gordon (1936) was edited into a 72-minute feature version in 1938.

SYNOPSIS
Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Alexis 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.

CAST & CREW
Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon
Charles B. Middleton as Ming the Merciless
Jean Rogers as Dale Arden
Priscilla Lawson as Princess Aura
Frank Shannon as Dr. Alexis Zarkov
Richard Alexander as Prince Barin
Jack Lipson as King Vultan
Theodore Lorch as Second High Priest
James Pierce as Prince Thun
Duke York as King Kala
Earl Askam as Officer Torch
Richard Tucker as Professor Gordon
George Cleveland as Professor Hensley
Muriel Goodspeed as Zona

Directed by Frederick Stephani
Screenplay by Frederick Stephani, Ella O'Neill, George H. Plympton (as George Plympton), Basil Dickey
Based on Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond
Produced by Henry MacRae
Cinematography Jerome Ash, Richard Fryer
Edited by Saul A. Goodkind, Louis Sackin, Alvin Todd, Edward Todd
Production company Universal Pictures, King Features Syndicate
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date March 5, 1936
Running time 72 minutes
Country United States
Language English

NOTES
In 1996, Flash Gordon was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

A different feature version of the serial, at 90 minutes, was sold directly to television in 1966 under the title Spaceship to the Unknown.