Rocket Ship poster

Movie · 1938

Rocket Ship

Released 1 March 1938 More from 1938 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

A heavy condensation of the 1936 serial Flash Gordon, with altered musical score. Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov visit the planet Mongo to thwart the evil schemes of Emperor Ming the Merciless, who has set his planet on a collision course with Earth. Released abroad as "Flash Gordon" for countries not interested in booking the serial, and never shown in the USA before 1950, where the title was changed to "Rocket Ship".

FR·01

How old were they?

Oldest first
Richard Tucker
as Professor Gordon
53
Earl Askam
as Officer Torch
46
Jack 'Tiny' Lipson
as King Vultan
37
James Pierce
as Prince Thun
37
Richard Alexander
as Prince Barin
35
FR·02

The numbers

Computed from the cast above
18years between the oldest and youngest billed
53Richard Tucker — oldest on the call sheet
35Richard Alexander — youngest billed
42average age of the credited cast
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