Product Details

• Actors: Flash Gordon
• Format: Black & White, Color, Dolby, DVD, Original recording remastered, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Vintage Home Ent.
• DVD Release Date: October 4, 2005
• Run Time: 224 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000B5Y0LY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #319,481 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

FLASH GORDON CONQUERS
THE UNIVERSE – 12 EPISODES
In this collection of all 12 chapters of the classic pulp serial, a mysterious plague is ravaging the earth. Dubbed the Purple Death, Dr. Alexis Zarkov (Frank Shannon) is determined to find the cause. Using his spaceship to investigate, he discovers a ship from Mongo tampering with Earth’s atmosphere. Informing Flash Gordon (Larry "Buster" Crabbe) and Dale Arden (Carolyn Hughes) that their old nemesis Ming the Merciless (Charles B. Middleton) is up to his old tricks, the three head to Mongo to confront him. When they arrive they find allies in Prince Barin of Arboria (Roland Drew) and his wife Princess Aura (Shirley Deane), who is Ming’s daughter. In order to secure an antidote to the deadly disease, the heroes must free Frigian military leader General Lupi (Ben Taggart). Ming will not be thwarted so easily, however, and he sends his henchmen to pursue Flash from northern tundra to uncharted deserts. Flash and his friends must outwit Ming’s top minions and topple the tyrant in order to save the Earth and the entire universe!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A lot like reading Dickens..., December 29, 2005

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Rich Kokoska (Mansfield Center, CT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flash Gordon - Dominion of Ming (DVD)

This series is being transferred to dvd under several names, so read the reviews for the other "Flash Gordon" sets on Amazon. There are plenty of great reviews attached to the alternate titles so I will only add that watching this series is one of those experiences that seems so unpromising at the outset and so rewarding by the end...kind of like reading a Dickens novel...by about the 4th episode the acting, costume and sets fall into place with unexpectedly stylish bikinis, Buster Crabbe in his double-breasted short coats, sets framed with stylish art deco doors and windows, and savagely naive robots and rock monsters giving the whole a kind of archaic charm. If you like sci-fi and fantasy your suffering through episodes 1-3 will be rewarded...