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Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers - 1936

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Flash Gordon 'Space Soldiers' is a 1936 science fiction film serial. Shown in 13 chapters, it was the first screen adventure for the comic-strip character Flash Gordon that was invented by Alex Raymond only two years earlier in 1934.
It tells the story of Flash Gordon's first visit to the planet Mongo and his encounter with the evil Emperor Ming the Merciless. Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Priscilla Lawson and Frank Shannon played the central roles. 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".
The planet Mongo is on a collision course with Earth. Dr. Alexis Zarkov takes off in a rocket ship to Mongo, with Flash Gordon and Dale Arden as his assistants. They find that the planet is ruled by the cruel Emperor Ming, who lusts after Dale and sends Flash to fight in the arena. Ming's daughter, Princess Aura, tries to spare Flash's life. Aura helps Flash to escape as Zarkov is put to work in Ming's laboratory and Dale is prepared for her wedding to Ming. Flash meets Prince Thun, leader of the Lion Men, and the pair return to the palace to rescue Dale. Flash stops the wedding ceremony, but he and Dale are captured by King Kala, ruler of the Shark Men and a loyal follower of Ming. At Ming's order, Kala forces Flash to fight with a giant octosak in a chamber filling with water.
Aura and Thun rescue Flash from the octosak. Trying to keep Flash away from Dale, Aura destroys the mechanisms that regulate the underwater city. Flash, Dale, Aura and Thun escape from the underwater city, but are captured by King Vultan and the Hawkmen. Dr. Zarkov befriends Prince Barin, and they race to the rescue. Dale pretends to fall in love with King Vultan in order to save Flash, Barin and Thun, who are put to work in the Hawkmen's Atom Furnaces. Flash, Barin, Thun and Zarkov create an explosion in the atomic furnaces.
Dr. Zarkov saves the Hawkmen's city from falling, earning Flash and his friends King Vultan's gratitude. Ming insists that Flash fight a Tournament of Death against a masked opponent, revealed to be Barin, and then a vicious orangopoid. Flash survives the tournament with Aura's help, after she discovers the weak point of the orangopoid. Still determined to win Flash, Aura has him drugged to make him lose his memory. Flash recovers his memory. Ming is determined to have Flash executed.
Zarkov invents a machine that makes Flash invisible. Flash torments Ming and his guards. Barin hides Dale in the catacombs, but Aura has her tracked by a tigron. Aura realizes the error of her ways, and falls in love with Barin. She tries to help Flash and his friends to return to Earth — but Ming plots to kill them. Ming orders that the Earth people be caught and killed, but Flash and his friends escape from the Emperor's clutches, and Ming is apparently killed in the flames of the "sacred temple of the Great God Tao". Flash, Dale and Zarkov make a triumphant return to Earth.

Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers
Chapter 1 - Planet In Peril

Runtime: 18:49 - The planet Mongo is on a collision course with Earth. Dr. Alexis Zarkov takes off in a rocket ship to Mongo, with Flash Gordon and Dale Arden as his assistants. They find that the planet is ruled by the cruel Emperor Ming, who lusts after Dale and sends Flash to fight in the arena. Ming's daughter, Princess Aura, tries to spare Flash's life When a mysterious planet comes hurtling through space threatening to destroy Earth, Flash fearlessly meets the challenge. He falls into the clutches of the merciless Ming and is forced to battle for his life against huge, ape-like man-killers.

Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers
Chapter 2 - Tunnel Of Terror

Runtime: 19:05 - Aura helps Flash to escape as Zarkov is put to work in Ming's laboratory and Dale is prepared for her wedding to Ming. Flash meets Prince Thun, leader of the Lion Men, and the pair return to the palace to rescue Dale. Escaping the threat of the ape-like killers in the arena, Flash must now face a battle with Thun and the Lion Men in a struggle that almost costs him his life.

Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers
Chapter 3 - Death Grip

Runtime: 19:59 - Flash stops the wedding ceremony, but he and Dale are captured by King Kala, ruler of the Shark Men and a loyal follower of Ming. At Ming's order, Kala forces Flash to fight with a giant octosak in a chamber filling with water After thwarting Ming, who intended to force Dale into marriage, Flash faces the terrors of the dreaded King Kala and his Shark Men.

Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers
Chapter 4 - The Sea Beast

Runtime: 17:13 - Aura and Thun rescue Flash from the octosak. Trying to keep Flash away from Dale, Aura destroys the mechanisms that regulate the underwater city. When Aura cuts off the air supply to Kala's underwater palace, Flash rushes to the aid of Dale.

Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers
Chapter 5 - The Destroying Ray

Runtime: 16:53 - Flash, Dale, Aura and Thun escape from the underwater city, but are captured by King Vultan and the Hawkmen. Dr. Zarkov befriends Prince Barin, and they race to the rescue. Ming saves the doomed Shark City and delivers Flash and his friends into the hands of the Hawk Men. At the same time, King Vultan plots against the Prince of Justice.

Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers
Chapter 6 - Flaming Torture

Runtime: 16:51 - Dale pretends to fall in love with King Vultan in order to save Flash, Barin and Thun, who are put to work in the Hawkmen's Atom Furnaces. Upon landing in Sky City, Flash and his friends are immediately taken prisoner by Vultan, who demands that Dale renounce Flash forever.

Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers
Chapter 7 - Shattering Doom

Runtime: 17:11 - Flash, Barin, Thun and Zarkov create an explosion in the atomic furnaces. Flash is threatened by Vultan's atom furnaces and electro-charged mechanical devices.

Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers
Chapter 8 - Tournament Of Death

Runtime: 16:02 - Dr. Zarkov saves the Hawkmen's city from falling, earning Flash and his friends King Vultan's gratitude. Ming insists that Flash fight a Tournament of Death against a masked opponent, revealed to be Barin, and then a vicious orangopoid. Flash is pitted against his own friend, Prince Barin, in a deadly battle that results in another battle with the Orangopoid.

Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers
Chapter 9 - Fighting The Fire Dragon

Runtime: 18:02 - Flash survives the tournament with Aura's help, after she discovers the weak point of the orangopoid. Still determined to win Flash, Aura has him drugged to make him lose his memory. Outraged by Flash's defeat of the Orangopoid, Ming orders an injection of "drops of forgetfulness" and sends him to the abode of the sacred Fire Dragon.

Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers
Chapter 10 - The Unseen Peril

Runtime: 17:44 - Flash recovers his memory. Ming is determined to have Flash executed. Flash's memory is gone, but Zharkov accomplishes a memory restoration.

Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers
Chapter 11 - In The Claws Of Tigron

Runtime: 17:16 - Zarkov invents a machine that makes Flash invisible. Flash torments Ming and his guards. Barin hides Dale in the catacombs, but Aura has her tracked by a tigron. With the aid of an invisibility machine, Flash releases Vultan, and together they prepare to return to Earth, while enemy Aura makes plans to intercept them.

Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers
Chapter 12 - Trapped In The Turret

Runtime: 16:57 - Aura realizes the error of her ways, and falls in love with Barin. She tries to help Flash and his friends to return to Earth — but Ming plots to kill them. Prince Barin persuades Aura to help with their escape. The Earth party assembles in the Turret House, which is set aflame by fire from a mysterious rocket ship.

Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers
Chapter 13 - Rocketing To Earth

Runtime: 19:01 - Ming orders that the Earth people be caught and killed, but will Flash and his friends escape from the Emperor's clutches? Escaping from the Turret House by an underground passage, Flash and his friends return to an electrically protected laboratory. Ming, under attack by Thun's rocket ship, flees to exile in the Palace of Tao.

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