Flash Gordon
“Pathetic earthlings...who can save you now?”
A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
Genres
Science Fiction, Adventure, Action
Studio
Starling Films
Language
en
Status
Released
How Flash Gordon performed
Budget
$35.0M
Worldwide Gross
$27.1M
Gross Profit
−$7.9M
Return
0.8× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$3M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~34/66, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (37% of the domestic run, typical for Science Fiction) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Flash Gordon
Sam J. Jones
Flash Gordon
Dale Arden
Melody Anderson
Dale Arden
The Emperor Ming
Max von Sydow
The Emperor Ming
Dr. Hans Zarkov
Chaim Topol
Dr. Hans Zarkov
Princess Aura
Ornella Muti
Princess Aura
Prince Barin
Timothy Dalton
Prince Barin
Prince Vultan
Brian Blessed
Prince Vultan
Klytus
Peter Wyngarde
Klytus
Kala
Mariangela Melato
Kala
Arborian Priest
John Osborne
Arborian Priest
Fico
Richard O'Brien
Fico
Luro
John Hallam
Luro
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