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Flash Gordon
Summary: A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
Release Date: December 05, 1980
Director:
Mike Hodges
Runtime: 1 h 51 min
MPAA: PG
Production: Starling Films, Starling Films, Famous Films (II), Famous Films (II), Dino De Laurentiis Company, Dino De Laurentiis Company
Distributor: Arrow Video, Cinema Classics, Image Entertainment, MGM Television, Paramount Television
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 20,000,000
Domestic: $ 27,107,960
International: $ 77,249
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