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Flesh Gordon is a 1974 American superhero sex comedy feature film serving as a spoof of Universal Pictures 's first (of three) Flash Gordon serial films from the 1930s. The film was produced by Walter R. Cichy, Bill Osco, and Howard Ziehm. It was co-directed by Ziehm and Michael Benveniste, who also wrote the screenplay.
Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders (aka Flesh Gordon 2: Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders) is a 1990 Canadian superhero sex comedy film, and the sequel to the sex comedy Flesh Gordon. Like the original, it spoofs the Flash Gordon serials, though the humor is more scatological than the original.
The film was originally released in North America via Universal Studios. Universal has retained the domestic theatrical and home video rights, while the international rights passed on through different distributors, eventually residing with StudioCanal. However, the film's UK distributor, Thorn EMI, controlled U.S TV rights
Meltem Mete portrayed in Dale in the 1967 Turkish film Flash Gordon's Battle in Space (AKA Baytekin – Fezada Çarpisanlar in Turkish). Here Dale is depicted as a spy who helps Flash. [11] Diane Pershing provided the voice for the character in the 1979 Filmation series. [12] Filmation's version of the character was a newspaper reporter. [13]
The film also aired numerous times on various Bulgarian cable stations in the late 1990s. The Japanese release is presented uncut with the original English voice track, with Japanese subtitles. At the end of the movie is a trailer for the De Laurentiis live-action film, as well as trailers for other titles from the VAP Video library at the time.
Later versions of the Flash Gordon story, such as the 1980 film, the 1996 cartoon series, and the Dynamite Entertainment comics, show Mongo as being in another star system or galaxy, and coming into contact with Earth's system through a wormhole-like portal. [7] The demonym of the planet's people vary according to different writers.
In 1936, Aura was portrayed by Priscilla Lawson in the Flash Gordon film serial. [3] [4] In 1940, the role was portrayed by Shirley Deane in the third Flash Gordon serial, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe. [5] Aura was portrayed by Ornella Muti in the 1980 film Flash Gordon, produced by Dino De Laurentiis, and has been described as seductive ...
In his review of the film in the 2015 reference Radio Times Guide to Films, Alan Jones describes Flash Gordon as "non-stop thrill-a-minute stuff as Flash battles one adversary after another", and he states that it is "the best of the Crabbe trilogy of Flash Gordon films". [13]