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Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe (Delta) (1940)
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Buster Crabbe,
Anne Gwynne,
Carol Hughes,
Charles Middleton,
Frank Shannon,
Donal Curtis,
Shirley Deane,
Roland Drew,
Lee Powell,
Don Rowan
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Director:
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Ford Beebe,
Ray Taylor
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Action / Adventure,
Classics,
Sci-Fi
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Delta Entertainment
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Subtitles: |
[None]
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Length: |
200 mins
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12 Dynamic Chapters
Chapters 1-4 Ming the Merciless is spreading his deadly "purple dust" and killing people on earth.Flash, Dale and Dr. Zarkov take off to planet Mongo where they team up with Barin and Queen Fria to stop Ming's further experimentation with the deadly dust.They destroy Ming's experiment but not without a fight and near death.They escape and speed off to Frigia where they mine for Polarite, the only antidote to the purple dust.There they face one disaster after another;with avalanches set off by Ming's men and the "Annihilatons", Ming's walking bombs who set out to kill Flash and company.Two of the Annihilatons grab Dale and Dr. Zarkov and head back to Ming's planet.Meanwhile, Flash comes to, after being thrown down a pit, and rushes to earth with the Polarite before heading back to Mongo to save Dale and Dr. Zarkov from certain death. Chapter One:The Purple Death Chapter Two:Freezing Torture Chapter Three:Walking Bombs Chapter Four:The Destroying Ray
Chapters 5-8 Flash reaches Mongo just in time to rescue Dr. Zarkov from Ming's torture chamber, but instead he, too is caught in the destroying ray and only at the last minute are they rescued.Zarkov is brought to Ming's throne room and agrees to use his genius to help Ming conquer the universe in return for his life.Instead, in Ming's lab, Zarkov teams up with Karm to break Ming's evil power.Zarkov has created a new Magnetic gun which will paralyze Ming's power plant.Meantime, Ming overhears and reveals to Aura that he has set a bomb for Zarkov and Flash.The bomb detonates and our heroes find themselves at the mercy of the Rock Men who threaten to kill them unless they find their King's son.Flash and Zarkov manage to escape from the caves and find the King's son.Flash sends Zarkov to inform the King, but Zarkov is delayed by a giant lizard.At that moment, Dale is being lowered into a fiery pit. Chapter Five:The Palace Of Terror Chapter Six:Flaming Death Chapter Seven:The Land Of The Dead Chapter Eight:The Fiery Abyss
Chapters 9-12 Dale is captured and held hostage with Aura, Ming's daughter, in exchange for one of Ming's soldiers.Flash and his men find a way into Ming's palace to rescue her but not without first defying floods, electrified traps and gas bombs.Meanwhile Dr. Zarkov finds out the secret to the deadly dust.However, Ming overhears and lets it be known that he has another source of power.Flash discovers this new destructive power - Solarite - on one of Ming's ships, set to destroy the earth.Just as Flash finds a way to the ship, Ming realized that Flash will probably use the Solarite against him, so he hides in the tower where he hopes to use the controls to shoot the solarite ship out of the sky.Flash sets the ship on a course for the tower and jumps into Dr. Zarkov's ship. At the end of this third and final Flash Gordon series, will Flash indeed Conquer the Universe? Chapter Nine:The Pool Of Death Chapter Ten:The Death Mist Chapter Eleven:Stark Treachery Chapter Twelve:Doom of the Dictator
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