Flash Gordon (1936) Ch. 7 Serial Clip

[update613]

These shorts are classic were can I find these on dvd

[leoseries57]

Why wasn't Jack Lipson nominated for an Oscar following his masterful acting as Vultan?

[bindi06]

Buster Crabbe was just too cute with a terrific body. I read somewhere that he disliked his hair being dyed blonde,though. It made him uncomfortable when men whistled at him because of it.

[rabele123]

Amazing isn't it, how aliens from other planets are always human, and that they always speak English?

[MORKOS621]

Why did they always think back then that people in other planets or the future would be wearing less clothes?

[kmhoran1]

@MORKOS621 Because it was assumed that people in the future or on other planets were not as uptight about their body.

[MORKOS621]

@kmhoran1 If someone from the 30s were to wake up from a coma to discover he was in the 21st century, he'd probably be disappointed.

[blacsouljah]

@kmhoran1 They couldn't have been more wrong about the uptight part of people in the future.

[unholyblunts]

@ 0:48 birdman got some tit on that one

[dejahthoris]

I could go gay for Princess Aura

[twooffour]

The Liszt SonatA???!!!

[leafyutube]

Yea Dale Arden is hot, but so is Ming's daughter.

[hethwheel]

Ah the old electro stimulator! Never fails.

[janosN]

Dale is a cute fainter.

[PhaintPhan]

she does it a LOT in these movies, too.

[dougd1015]

Weird how the alien planet has art deco style technology, kinda like earth.

[darkwhitedirewolf]

Must be where Lucas got the idea for the device Han Solo got tied to by Vader. :(

[puppeteye]

god i love this all movies! they are so funny to watch! funny

how things change in time! tnx for posting!

[Yourdeadmeat69]

Though two years apart, each of the three serials captures the motion picture ethos and state of the art with respect to social interaction, the first serial stilted, with a great deal of histrionic early thirtees style acting, the second in 1938 with all its superpaced dialogue and slap happy sidekicks, and the last in 1940 on the eve of WWII and showing the effects of "modern" acting style, and the influence of Republic serials.

[MickeyLove01]

here we see Priscilla Lawson with both legs

[ceaserdressing]

where did she not have 2 legs ?

a ping pong ball ?

[MickeyLove01]

Following Flash Gordon, Priscilla Lawson married actor Alan Curtis and joined the armed forces in World War II under her married name. It is undocumented, but some people believe that she lost a leg in an accident while serving in the Women's Army Corps.

[Osocooltwo]

@ceaserdressing EERRMMMM This clip was dated 1936....she would have lost a leg years later in WW2 !?

[Bubis1907]

I would like to see the rest!

:D

[paladin696969]

flash looked like he had fun in the "electro stimulator" :-)

[chr8st8na]

hahaha best comment ever

[Averyinyourface]

Jean Rogers is so hot !!

[meezerlover]

:-) :-) :-) ;-)

[meezerlover]

A blast from the past. Corny, but I still love it, especially the way the space ship takes off with its 4th of July sparklers for power and a invisible string making it rise..:-) Love it!

[GEORGEDLUGOS]

i despite what people think thought jean rogers was excellent as dale arden im surprised she wasnt a bigger star.i also think she was 1 of the most beautiful actresses ive everseen.some women are sexy but not cute or pretty & vice versa but jean was very very cute and yet very sexy and pretty i go nuts when they show her in close ups she had a perfect face.its a shame i think she died about 12 years ago.

[JNT1978]

This scene resembles the torture scene with Han Solo on Bespin in Empire Strikes Back.

[deemilieu]

indeed, some shapely women they made back then...

[sihingjimo]

What utter Nonsense!!!...Yet, I watched it on Sunday mornings, as a serial on a show...and I now have it on DVD...but it is still the best of sily Nonsense!!...and I will always love this episode...I like the episode when Flash fights "Urso", the striped Bear...and the Giant Squid...then there is the film with a character called "Happy"...???

[scotpens]

Cadet Happy was a character from the "Space Patrol" TV series that ran from 1950 to 1955.

[scotpens]

There was also a wisecracking newspaper reporter nicknamed "Happy" in the second serial, "Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars."

[DarkGalaxy3]

Yep, you're right.

Happy Hapgood.

[ysbaddaden2003]

Actually, I think Happy was one reason the series died. Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe was actually of pretty high standard, but Happy and the bland Queen Azura in Flash Gordon Goes to Mars hurt the series so bad, and since the sexy costumes were mostly in the first and most popular Flash Gordon (Space Soldiers), interest dwindled.

[ysbaddaden2003]

Sorry, I meant to say Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars.

[goback3spaces]

Naw, Happy was okay. Good comic relief. I remember a line of his. "Any enemy of Ming is a friend of mine." Words of wisdom from the Hap-man.

[antblue363]

i was at a flea market and bought flash gordon volume 2 think it was lhe last chapter on the disc 12- and that is where THE MIGHTY GEORGE LUCAS GOT HIS IDEA FOR STAR WARS-FACT

[rathraven1313]

Vultan and Hawmen should attack Thanagar.

[unclebobunclebob]

I like when the doctor gets that ping-pong ball to float for a few seconds and then says "Ive got it!" Got what? He never says.

[kekambas79]

Flash...Ahhhh...Savior of the universe. (Queen)

[waschbeckenfrisch]

i see nipples 0:36^^

Trash Classic Show

[leoseries]

Our testosterone was barely awakening back then but Dale and Princess Aura helped it along!

[manklover]

mmmmmmm - Buster does it for me everytime....

[epmorris]

Fantastic! Very ahead of its time and Camp! Made me laugh when flash [ in tights] is put into the phallic shaped "electro stimulator" !! What were the makers thinking about . So much better and imaginative than so much of the politically correct depressing reality stuff spoon fed to kids today. {The great BBC excepted)

[sihingjimo]

Does anyone have a clip of Flash fighting the "strped bear" Urso?? Or of him fighting that giant squid??

[RedKothar]

Priscilla Lawson.

Pretty much sums it up, eh?

[RUSTYCAT97]

They sure liked sparks back then,that was the future.

[deadman330]

they sure loved there silly costumes aswell

[westlock]

The emphasis on sparks was because they were cheap to make, and they looked good in monochrome.

[Long23]

Gordon's alive?

[Nichen]

She is just smashing! Beautiful as a day...wow.

[Yourdeadmeat69]

In 1951, TV brought FLASH (and Crabbe's waning career) back to life. Sitting at the 1951 Dumont, my Mom whispered to Dad "After Destination Moon's special effects, will Trip to Mars sell to the 6 year old."

I'm over 60 now. Still sold on sincerity, charm, and pioneering efforts. Some things shouldn't change.

[Yourdeadmeat69]

Following the comic strip and 1934 Big Little Books, right down to costume design! This hoot was the Spielberg's Star Wars inspiration.

There isn't a single sentence or plotline that makes any sense whatsoever--frequently making you say--WHAT?--then forgiving all because director Ford Beebe was so right telling the actors, "Play it straight up." the charm overshadows everything.

[ysbaddaden2003]

Frederick Stephani directed the first Flash Gordon; Ford Bebe did the two lesser ones that followed: Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars, and Flash Gordon Conquers the Unniverse.

[Yourdeadmeat69]

All 3 Flash Crabbe serials are on shoddy DVD's, awaiting clean up practices of SERIAL SQUADRON--which just happens to have cleaned up picture and sound, redoing the feature made October 1936 of this March 1936 13 chapter play--it's in widescreen and BAMA color!

[odude03]

You have to remember that much nakedness was so erotic way back then, and even in the fifties when I first saw it. Buster was the subject of many early tortured late-night fantasies: unconscious, vulnerable, with that ample bulge, in a time when guys' packages weren't allowed to show. It was pre-porn, the rest you had to fabricate in your mind.

[hamerdow]

Another Buster Crabbe scene which evokes s&m fantasies of a homo-erotic nature occurs in Chapter 11 of the 1947 serial, "The Sea Hound." A bare-chested Crabbe is tied up and threatened with torture by angry South Sea islanders.

[scotpens]

Hmmm...Aura or Dale? Dale or Aura?

Just let the two of them fight it out -- and the winner gets me!

On second thought, the LOSER would probably get me.

[takomaguy]

Aura! Aura is a bad girl. A bad, bad, girl. A bad, naughty girl...

[frlac40]

Princess Aura alway's look beautiful no matter who portray's her on film.

[doronDeutsch]

Hi - check this version of colored "A trip to the moon" set to new music and live performance, giving the old footage new meaning:

watch?v=vfwvnS3QPUU

[CatsupIslam]

The Han Solo torture scene in empire strikes back.

[CatsupIslam]

Didn't Buster Crabbe do colonel Buck Roger back in the 70's?

[scotpens]

Buster Crabbe played Buck Rogers in a Universal 12-chapter serial made in 1939. The 1979-1981 "Buck Rogers" TV show starred Gil Gerard. Buster Crabbe was 72 years old by then!

[westlock]

He appeared briefly in the first episode of the Gil Gerard series as Brigadier Gordon.

[scotpens]

Really? I didn't know that. A nice tribute, or in-joke, or bit of "stunt casting" -- take your pick.

[sooperdon]

I remember that episode of Buck Rogers. Buck had inlisted the aide of some older pilots and while giving them advice on some manuevers, Buster Crabb's character told him, "I've been doing this since before you were born." That show was pretty good until they became explorers, then it got a bit lame.

[PBLEY]

I remember this as a child in the 1970s, and Wagnerian Music that went with it.

[lkijju]

Priscilla Lawson she was called.

[lkijju]

I watched this when I was a kid in the 50's

Too young to realise how fit the woman who played Princess Aura was.

[painsey]

hey i watched this show in the 70s when i was 6 yrs old

[ThomasGrillo]

Check out the forerunner to the MRI scanner. Funny how life follows art at times. Thanks for posting this. Too bad Sci-fi channel's not brave enough to run it.

[scotpens]

That tunnel-like device does look a bit like today's medical imaging equipment, though it was probably inspired by a similar gadget in Fritz Lang's "Metropolis."

Let's see...Flash was almost killed by electricity, so the way to revive him is -- MORE ELECTRICITY! What kind of medicine do they practice on Mongo, anyway? And note the gizmos from Universal's Frankenstein movies.

[starfyre05]

OMG,its the old flash,i love this as a kid,do you have any more?OMG, what a gem.

[aguamaniac]

Back in the 1930's Larry buster Crabbe was the MAN!

[MrJim]

Keep your eyes on King Vultons right hand at 00:52-01:04. Breastcupping on planet mongo!

[scotpens]

Well, if you had Jean Rogers next to you in that outfit, wouldn't you try to cop a feel?

With all their advanced science, apparently the people of Mongo never got around to inventing the bra!

[keski71]

its good for a laugh..wonder if its on dvd

[flapdoodle64]

Princess Aura and Dale Rogers were HOT. This is better than Babylon 5.

[sassywench]

What a fun and old clip. Thanks for posting!