The earth is threatened by something called Purple Death, that certainly emanates from outer space, so without much ado, Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe) and his friends Dr Zarkov (Frank Shannon) and Dale Arden (Carol Hughes) fly to the planet Mongo, home of the evil emperor Ming (Charles Middleton) they thought dead after the events of Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars to see what's going on, and to this end they enlist the help of their friends Prince Barin (Roland Drew) and his wife Princess Aura (Shirley Deane), who is also Ming's estranged, reformed daughter - and the only guarantee that Ming will not attack Arboria.

Soon, our e3arth-friends find out that the onjly remedy for Purple Death is Polarite, a substance only found in the icey deserts of Frigia, where they soon go to fetch the stuff - but which is of course not without its dangers, be it because of the perils of mountaineering (in scenes lifted from the German film Die Weisse H�lle vom Piz Pal� from 1929, a silent classicabout mountaineering by G.W.Pabst and Arnold Fanck starring Leni Riefenstahl) or because of Ming's robot army. Ultimately, Flash succeeds in getting the Polarite and getting it back to earth, but that's not the end of the story, bacause Ming has taken Dale and Zarkov prisoner, and after Flash ahs them released, Ming even plans to attack Arboria, after Aura's treacherous maid Sonja (Anne Gwynne) has helped him to get his daughter out of Arboria and back to his realm. But of course, Flash and company won't stand by to see Arboria fall, so they spoil each and every of Ming's attacks before launching attacks lof their own (and in the process making acquaintance witht he weird Rock People).

Ultimately though the last fight has to be fought in Ming's palace, where Flash has to free Princess Aura plus Zarkov and Dale, who have since been recaptured, before he flies a rocket full of explosives into Ming's tower control room, killing Ming for good ... Flash of course has bailed out before the explosion, just in time.

The third Flash Gordon serial might not be nearly as original and innovative as the first serial, Flash Gordon, but that aside it's still a naive but wonderful, adventurous, exciting and fast paced space opera that once again proves that an overboarding fantasy and a (relatively) low budget are not necessarily contradictions and simple and silly storylines do not automatically have to be ridiculous.

Very enjoyable.

review � by Mike Haberfelner

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