The Adventures of Flash Gordon: Battling the Sea Beast | Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers | Colorized

[@armandoanderson3536]

Princess Aura does it all. Villain, hero, go-getter, beauty, brains, and a bit twisted. Priscilla Lawson... gotta love her...

[@jimbroen]

The practical effects, the short shorts, the daring do and the glorious costumes. It's amazing what they achieved with the technology available at that time.

[@Omar-wq9dz]

I remember when I took a Space History class in college, my professor showed the first episode of this serial. Some time later, I watched the whole thing on my time, and it was totally worth it

[@brucebezold2714]

Must been a awsome class

[@shedjammer87]

Pretty racy for 1936!!...Thank you for posting this treasure.

[@pulpmysteryfan]

Things were definitely racier in the 20s and early 30s. That's the "pre-code" era: In 1934 the motion picture industry started adhering to the Motion Picture Production Code, which prohibited lots of things, like profanity, racy outfits, etc.

[@Godzillaforever1954]

Thanks!

[@kenbob1071]

Love how Dale faints immediately from lack of air, while everybody else runs, fights, talks for 10+ minutes. And, for a machine that is vital for their survival, they only have one guy operating the controls and no security.

[@richardkatzenberg8301]

I forgot what a HOTTIE Dale was in these early episodes, and that outfit! After this story they made her a brunette with short hair and dressed her like Peter Pan. What a loss.

[@judiydyer7898]

fantastic...brought great memories for Bruce, Peaul, Delbert and me We couldn't wait for the next week

[@JensMüller-e2w]

Das waren noch Zeiten! Hungerhaken und Sixpack waren damals noch nicht gefragt.

[@Kissfan96dr]

princess Aura skills: use ray guns 3 seduce 3 cat fight 2 spot gun on ground 8 Dale's skills: Feint 3 Scream 5 Make men salute 10 Notice O2 levels depleting 8 Zarkov: Pilot rocket ship 4 Science 52 Play with electricity 7 Flash's skills: Swim 8 Brawl 10 stealth 5 improvise piloting 9 Shadow choke 8 Thun's skills: Crash ships 3 shoot ray guns 4 loyalty 7 shave -5

[@larrydickman6016]

Thun's Skills: Fights 2 bad guys at once: 10+ Tells Flash to save Dale while bad guy has him pinned. 10+ Saves Flash. 10+ Slave Girl: Bouncing boobs 2

[@ExtremeUnction1988]

Perfect! LOL

[@simondancaster8334]

😂🤘🏻

[@Supergeologist]

Underpants are definately the future.

[@kathrynramm1731]

Loved Flash Gordon born in 42 starting watching when I was teenager👍🏼❤️

[@brucebezold2714]

Good then Good now

[@Godzillaforever1954]

Come on fans, let's show some support to Cult Cinema Classics for his fine work!

[@joelsilverstein21]

Flash Gordon is great and not appreciated enough!

[@bustercrabbe8447]

I would say half of these 1936 special effects are equivalent to 1967 Star Trek effects (think the Gorn?).

[@nelljrbr]

Flash Gordon is helped by ladies 'cause he is handsome, he helps ladies because they are hot. Could it be that beauty is what counts in the universe?

[@JoseyWales44s]

It sure helps.

[@johndonny443]

Either that or horrendous acting: )

[@douglasfreeman3229]

Yes. All "ugly" people are evil and all the "babes" and "hunks" are pure in heart and deed.

[@PungiFungi]

@@douglasfreeman3229 yes yes yes yes yes....the person's inner ugliest is reflected in the surface!

[@HassoBenSoba]

King Kala was played (poorly) by actor Duke York, who went on to appear as many monsters and freaks (Wolfman, Zulu spear thrower, "Angel" the hunchback, Nikko, etc) in the classic shorts of the Three Stooges. LR

[@barryobrien7935]

Buster Crabbe was a bit of alright!

[@georgemarcouxjr6192]

Imagine. 1936, the Great Depression, The world is in the beginning of WWII. Your a kid with 15¢. That would get you a bottle of soda, a bag of popcorn, cartoons, serials, and a double feature. An entire Saturday afternoon for 15¢.

[@Morboeatspeople]

Back when wages were about forty cents/hour. It'll be interesting to compare 1936 to its centennial. Did I say "interesting," or "depressing?"

[@brianwhite2104]

WWII was still in the future at that point.

[@vestafreyja]

@@brianwhite2104 Depending upon how you view history WWII there is a case for starting with an earlier date possibly as early as 1931 when Japan invaded Manchuria. The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945 which is considered part of World War II, and often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia. If you use a wider global view of the world and war the ground work of what would be WWII had already started.

[@brianwhite2104]

@@vestafreyja I think a credible case can be made for WWII starting in 1937 with the outbreak of war between Japan and China, but the invasion of Manchuria in 1931 seems more analogous to Germany's invasion of Czechia in that it did not immediately provoke war.

[@borusa32]

The colourising is very good and suits the era of production.

[@davidusler4956]

I have all the original Fash Gordon & Buck Rogers series on DVD, starring Buster Crabbe...

[@johnshields6852]

Conquering, controlling, hostile, violence, such human thoughts, it's what makes us truly animals and separates us for a higher existence, our egos keep us down. Greed, jealousy, cruelty, truly primitive animals.

[@simoneraoult8699]

Beautiful

[@shamicagray4014]

Flash Gordon is just Larry 🧐😂😂😂😂

[@mully292]

His name is Buster. You child.

[@shamicagray4014]

@@mully292 Larry is what I read in the credits, you grown up😝

[@JustAVerySmith]

5:13 Passes the Bechdel Test

[@armandoanderson3536]

And more... cat fight and Princess Aura taking charge.... priceless...

[@duke_of_lilywhite4829]

I watch these old Flash Gordon serials as a kid back in the seventies. KBSC, The local UHF station, showed these in the late afternoon and on the weekends, and they definitely weren't colorized. And despite the limited production values, I found these serials very entertaining. However, I had forgotten entirely how cute Jean Rodgers was, even though her real name was Eleanor Dorothy Lovegren. It's too bad she only had a handful of screen credits during her 15-year acting career. Who knows how world-renowned this Swedish beauty would have been if she had stuck with her acting and gotten bigger roles in better movies. (⊙‿⊙✿)

[@NeuralX000]

I am watching 6:00 a.m. Xmas morning 2024

[@benoitpellet1657]

What more could anyone ask for? The women are gorgeous and sexy, the men are handsome and hot, the costumes emphasize that, the bad guys and gals are true villains, not just antiheroes, the good guys and gals are sterling, not troubled. It was good times.

[@johndonny443]

Was anyone else cheering on the calimari monster?

[@XAVIERCUERVO]

i hate it when they dont put the year this was made in the title

[@Der_Daemon]

This was made 2022 🖖

[@bartercoins]

It says: MCMXXXVI.

[@tyso5146]

Agreed. It's insanely good for its time.

[@tyso5146]

@@bartercoins This is a clever comment.

[@bustercrabbe8447]

The date is clearly written in the bottom right of the title.

[@KiNGJAMESuz]

Make captions available in Uzbek.

[@hydrolito]

Some pictures of what was a real octopus but also fake octopus which difference is obvious.

[@marianvlad8553]

Super frumos 👍👍👍👍

[@SmellsLikeNothing]

the watermark really ruins it though

[@maskogorzakmaskogorzak]

That dudes shorts though. Other than that it’s awesome.

[@Mike-hp2dd]

What happened to Liszt's Les Preludes? Different music.

[@chrischibnall593]

That was used in the third serial, "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe".

[@Mike-hp2dd]

@@chrischibnall593 thanks - good catch.

[@yippyskippy3359]

Can some of e please help me. My dad has parkinsons. I'm trying to buy him the mo it's he still remembers. He said buster crabbe was in 20000 leagues under the sea? I bought the one w kirk Douglas. But can't find one w buster crabbe?

[@SmellsLikeNothing]

i get the ones running this channel upscaled and colorized this but i dont see that as a good reason to put your watermark on someone else's work. also it's distracting.

[@kevinmccarthy8746]

All of a sudden the sien shiffed ,switched, to flash leaving the octopus dead??

[@marcdelente2456]

Pour la petite anecdote charles midllton a tourné avec laurel et hardy dans le film les sans soucis les deux légionnaires et la vie privé d oliver 8 les conscrits . Pour les passionnés de cinéma amitié.

[@karlsonkab51]

Kenneth Strickfaden sparky toyz !

[@simoneraoult8699]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤,,,,very,,Nice

[@darryl3422]

As a kid in the 60s I thought Dale and the Princess were pretty hot....still do

[@PungiFungi]

Later incarnations would have Dale more chaste but Princess Aura get sexed up a lot more.

[@matthewcorder2188]

Priscilla Lawson was a total babe.

[@brianperry]

Remember this being shown on Saturday morning matinee in Fifties UK …The Gaumont cinema was bedlam with all us little kids shouting warning to Flash when Ming the Merciless appeared…We were all to young to realize what a hottie Dale was….

[@matthewcorder2188]

I think my Grandmother attended High School with Her in Indianapolis.

[@douglasfreeman3229]

I always found the perpetual incidental music a bit irritating.

[@charlesameyer1]

Where’s Queen Arachnia?

[@glenmale1748]

Pride month in 1936. More lycra than San Francisco.

[@johngalt6708]

The ladies of 1936 were smoking hot❤

[@helenpoornima5126]

Nice 👸

[@carlrudd1858]

Aura! hot HOT HOT!!!

[@newtronix]

Dale is so weak! What does Flash see in her!

[@captaintorch983]

The fact that she is utterly gorgeous!

[@newtronix]

@@captaintorch983 I prefer Princess Aurora.

[@captaintorch983]

@@newtronix You mean Princess Aura! Yes, she was lovely as well, very sultry looking.

[@newtronix]

@@captaintorch983 yes sorry Princess Aura! A lady who doesn't swoon at the first opportunity!

[@captaintorch983]

@@newtronix Very true! Sadly,In the later serials and played by a different actress, she is very different.

[@ChefDwight]

Flash gordon

[@GrumblingGrognard]

The constantly shifting-fake colors are horrid. Unwatchable imo.

[@thierrymoreau6751]

cucu

[@operative-division]

Смешно ))

[@felix25ize]

La planète mongole ...^^

[@andrejshamin1452]

🙂

[@austinevplab7167]

I streamed it to my tv and turned off the color. I couldn’t stand the bad colorization.

[@CKS1618]

C'est trop zhorrible

[@mersmithy1269]

Terrible when colorized

[@user-fq7ii3ub4m]

Oh dear... I can't sit through this nonsense 😅

[@tegothecat1519]

i feel the same way about the stuff on tv and the movies now I guess you need to be older to like this stuff,

[@brianwhite2104]

@@tegothecat1519 I'm 33 and I'm enjoying it.