[MrBarlow]

Flash Gordon 1980.

A American quarterback, a journalist and a crazy scientist travel to the planet Mongo to stop an evil Emperor Ming from destroying Earth.

This is one of those cheesiest campy Sci-fi films that's still a bit entertaining and backed by a great score by Queen, (can you say flash without thinking or Saying AHHH?).

Sam J. Jones plays the hero Flash, Melody Anderson plays Dale Arden and Topol stars as Dr Hans Zarkov who believed the end of the world will happen. Bond actor Timothy Dalton stars as Prince Barin and loudmouth Brian Blessed (how he managed not to swear) as leader of the hawkmen Prince Vultan. Ming was played brilliantly by Max Von Sydow.

There was some problems behind the scenes with this film, apparently there was some communication problems between the British and American cast and the Italian crew. Sam Jones didn't get along that well producer Dino De Laurentiis that a fight broke out and Jones walked off set and a unnamed actor to replace Jones's voice in pre production, and two sequels were to emerge but due to cinema fails they never happened. One scene was scrapped when Ming hypnotised Flash to think Dale was a giant spider, there is some good visual effects and did anyone get freaked out by Klytus death?