Directed by Frederick Stephani Ray Taylor Written by Alex Raymond   Frederick Stephani   Ella O'Neill   George H. Plympton   Basil Dickey   Cast Buster Crabbe ... Flash Gordon Jean Rogers ... Dale Arden Charles Middleton ... Ming the Merciless Priscilla Lawson ... Princess Aura Frank Shannon ... Dr. Alexis Zarkov Richard Alexander ... Prince Barin [Chs. 5-13] Jack 'Tiny' Lipson ... King Vultan [Chs. 5-13] Theodore Lorch ... High Priest #2 [Chs. 8-11, 13] Richard Tucker ... Professor Gordon George Cleveland ... Professor Hensley James Pierce ... Prince Thun [Chs. 2-9, 12-13] Duke York ... King Kala [Chs. 2-5] (as Duke York Jr.) Muriel Goodspeed ... Zona [Ch. 4] Earl Askam ... Officer Torch House Peters Jr. ... Shark Man [Chs. 3-4] Uncredited Cast John Bagni ... Hawkman Throne Room Guard Roy Barcroft ... Throne Guard Carroll Borland ... Woman in Ming's Palace Lynton Brent ... Transcontinental Plane Steward Don Brodie ... Earth Radio Scientist Lane Chandler ... Sharkman / Ming's Soldier Howard Christie ... shark Man Jim Corey ... Shark Man Ray Corrigan ... Orangopoid William Desmond ... Hawkman Lookout Captain Al Ferguson ... Spaceograph Operator Jerry Frank ... Sharkman Sig Frohlich ... Shark Man Saul A. Goodkind   (voice) Olive Hatch ... Aura's Handmaiden Reed Howes ... Airplane Pilot Fred Kohler Jr. ... Robot / Ming's Soldier George Magrill ... Ming's Soldier Charles McMurphy ... Atom Furnace Slavedriver Monte Montague ... Ming's Soldier Bull Montana ... Monkey Man Eddie Parker ... Ming's Soldier Lon Poff ... High Priest #1 Sana Rayya ... Priestess of Tigron Constantine Romanoff ... Monkey Man Fred Scott ... Soldier with Drugged Wine Cap Somers ... Sharkman Tom Steele ... Plane Passenger Glenn Strange ... Robot / Ming's Soldier / Gocko Bunny Waters ... Sharkman Slim Whitaker ... Prison Guard Harry Wilson ... Pit Control Operator Produced by Henry MacRae   Original Music by Clifford Vaughan

Additional Info Premiere: April 06, 1936 DVD Release: January 11, 2000 Country: Distributor: Image Entertainment Websites: Alternate Titles Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers Production Companies Universal Pictures Corporation Distributors Universal Pictures   (1936) (USA) (theatrical) Realart Pictures   (1952) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release) King Features Syndicate   (1989) (USA) (TV) (syndication) King Features Entertainment   (1989) (USA) (TV) (syndication) Image Entertainment   (1992) (USA) (video) (laserdisc) Image Entertainment   (1996) (USA) (video) (laserdisc) Image Entertainment   (2000) (USA) (DVD) Image Entertainment   (2002) (USA) (DVD) Image Entertainment   (2007) (USA) (DVD) Rating Stats Overall Rating 7.0 / 10 Our Rating -- / 10 Your Friends -- / 10 Male Users -- / 10 Female Users -- / 10 Site Ranking #6,939 / 20,886 Site Ranking #6,935 The Damned Thing (2006) #6,936 Thirteen At Dinner (1985) #6,937 Dungeons & Dragons 3: The Book Of Vile Darkness (2012) #6,938 Malibu Shark Attack (2009) #6,939 Flash Gordon (1936) #6,940 The Death Of The Incredible Hulk (1990) #6,941 Girls Gone Dead (2012) #6,942 Moving On (2022) #6,943 Hunted (2020)