Sunday Movie Night at SOY – Flash Gordon

1980 by Mike Hodges

Alex Raymond’s famous comic strip blasts to life in the action-packed sci-fi adventure Flash Gordon.  When energy waves pull the moon out of orbit, New York jets quarterback Flash Gordon (Sam J. Jones) unwittingly finds himself heading for the planet Mongo, where, with the assistance from beautiful Dale Arden (Melody Anderson), he will take on Ming the Merciless (Max von Sydow) and rescue humankind.