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Flash Gordon 115 minutes, UK (1980), PG

(3.5)

Rating: 3.5 Stars

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Flash Gordon

Exuberant and extraordinarily camp adaptation of the 1930s comic strip. Directed by Mike 'Get Carter' Hodges, no less

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Flash Gordon: Sam J Jones's credentials as a centrefold for 'Playgirl' magazine were sufficient for him to be cast as Flash Gordon, a man capable of saving the world from the evil Ming (Von Sydow). Let's face it, his 1930s predecessor, Buster Crabbe, wasn't Einstein or an actor either, and those camp serials had an appeal that lingers...

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