Film

Flash Gordon 1980

Directed by Mike Hodges

  • Science Fiction, Adventure, Action, Family
  • 111 min
  • PG

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.

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Epic, nostalgic, unpretentious and effortless.

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  • contemporarynostalgic
  • unpretentiousprestige
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  • character-ledplot-driven

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