Flesh Gordon (1974)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Directors:

Michael Benveniste
Howard Ziehm

Writer:

Michael Benveniste (screenplay)

Release Date:

30 July 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Not to be confused with the original "Flash Gordon"

Plot:

Emperor Wang (the Perverted) is leader of the planet Porno and sends his mighty "Sex Ray" towards Earth...

Plot Keywords:

Ray | Sex | Football Player | Planet | Nudity

Awards:

1 nomination

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Cast

Jason Williams	...	Flesh Gordon
Suzanne Fields	...	Dale Ardor
Joseph Hudgins	...	Dr. Flexi Jerkoff
William Dennis Hunt	...	Emperor Wang the Perverted (as William Hunt)
Candy Samples	...	Chief Nellie (also as Mary Gavin)
Mycle Brandy	...	Amora, Queen of Magic
John Hoyt	...	Prof. Gordon
Steve Grumette		(as Steve Grummette)
Nora Wieternik
Lance Larsen	...	Prince Precious
Hillary Summers		(as Judy Ziehm)
Leonard Goodman
Donald Lee Harris
Howard Alexander
Jack Rowe

Runtime:

78 min | USA:90 min (collector's edition) | 72 min (cut version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | West Germany:18 | Australia:R | Austria:18 | Canada:16+ (Québec) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Ontario) | France:-16 | New Zealand:R18 | Norway:16 (cut) | UK:18 | USA:R (edited for re-rating) (1975) | USA:X (original rating) | Netherlands:18

Company:

Graffiti Productions

Trivia:

For years, all of the standard sources reported that this film was edited from a hard-core "porno". However, when the "original, uncensored version" was released on video in the late 1990s, it proved to be only slightly more explicit than any previously released cut.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In one of the first scenes, a character clearly says, "Dr. Gordon, all of us here are aware of the total degragation that has overcome the masses." Obviously, he was meant to say "degradation."

Quotes:

Dr. Flexi Jerkoff: Do you take me for a fool? Do you think I don't know you've come here to steal the plans to my new interstellar hydro-combustion miracle-patented micro-teflon nuclear gamma strato rocketship-grade missile? Which was twenty years in the making?
[Shows blue prints]
Dr. Flexi Jerkoff: And employs a new updraft design which lifts the ship on small spirals of synthetic strontium pellets?
[puts blueprints back in jacket]
Dr. Flexi Jerkoff: Do you think I don't know that? Well, I've never even heard of it. So you're barking up the wrong tree.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Cinemacabre TV Trailers (1993) (V)

Superb

The beauty of Flesh Gordon is that it has no pretensions to seriousness. Much soft porn of the 70's was so mind-bogglingly asinine that lots of us nearly gave up sex. Flesh is so totally different, being funny, that it remains in my memory from the time I saw it in the Mid-70's. I still remember Dr Jerkoff unveiling his spaceship shaped like a giant erect phallus with the words "Fortunately I was able to complete the design before the Sex-ray took effect".

The word 'Penisaurus' has passed into the vocabulary of Britain now, as an insult, obviously. The rapist robots with their little spring willys still linger in my memory.

If I had seen it alone I would probably have walked out, but as a teenage miscreant with a friend it was hysterical. If you are not offended by the sight of breasts and enjoy a laugh watch it with some friends and a beer or two. Excellent fun.