Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars

Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars is a 1938 15-chapter science fiction Flash Gordon movie serial. It is based on a comic strip by Alex Raymond. It is the second of the three Flash Gordon movie serials made between 1936 and 1940. It is the second of the three Flash Gordon serials from Universal Pictures.

Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
Directed by	Ford Beebe Robert F. Hill
Written by	Ray Trampe Norman S. Hall Wyndham Gittens Herbert Dalmas
Starring	Buster Crabbe Jean Rogers Charles B. Middleton Frank Shannon Beatrice Roberts
Cinematography	Jerome Ash
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	March 21, 1938 (1938-03-21)
Running time	15 chapters (299 min)
Country	United States
Language	English

Buster Crabbe stars as Flash Gordon with Jean Rogers as Dale Arden, Frank Shannon as Dr. Zarkov, Charles B. Middleton as Ming the Merciless, and Beatrice Roberts as Queen Azura.

Story

Flash, Dale, and Zarkov discover that Ming the Merciless and Azura, Queen of Mars, have joined forces to conquer Earth with a dangerous raybeam. Martians that oppose the two evil ones are turned into clay humanoids. The heroes join the humanoids to defeat the evil Ming and Azura.

Related pages

• Flash Gordon (movie serial)
• Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe