Flash Gordon (film) Quotes

Flash Gordon (film) is a television program that first aired in 1970 . Flash Gordon stopped airing in 1970.

It features Dino De Laurentiis as producer, Queen; Howard Blake in charge of musical score, and Gilbert Taylor as head of cinematography.

Flash Gordon (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Flash Gordon (film) is 114 minutes long. Flash Gordon (film) is distributed by Universal Pictures.

The cast includes: Brian Blessed as Prince Vultan, Melody Anderson as Dale Arden, Peter Wyngarde as Klytus, Ornella Muti as Princess Aura, Mariangela Melato as Kala, Max von Sydow as The Emperor Ming, Timothy Dalton as Prince Barin, Sam J. Jones as Flash Gordon, John Hallam as Luro, George Harris as Prince Thun, and William Hootkins as Munson.

Flash Gordon (film) Quotes

Brian Blessed as Prince Vultan

• (Brian Blessed) "Onward my brave Hawkmen. Let this be known forever as Flash Gordon's Day."

• (Brian Blessed) "My thanks to you, Flash."
• (Sam J. Jones) "What for?"
• (Brian Blessed) "For giving an old bird a second chance."

• (Brian Blessed) "That must be one hell of a planet you men come from."
• (Sam J. Jones) "Not too bad."

• (Brian Blessed) "Flash -- when the ship hits the forcefield you'll be killed; this is suicide."
• (Sam J. Jones) "No Vultan -- it's a rational transaction. One life for billions --"

• (Brian Blessed) "GORDON'S ALIVE."

Max von Sydow as The Emperor Ming

• (Max von Sydow) "Klytus, I'm bored. What play thing can you offer me today?"
• (Peter Wyngarde) "An obscure body in the S-K System, Your Majesty. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet -- Earth."
• (Max von Sydow) "How peaceful it looks."
• (Peter Wyngarde) "Most effective, Your Majesty. Will you destroy this, er, Earth?"
• (Max von Sydow) "Later. I like to play with thing a while -- before annihilation."

• (Max von Sydow) "Did you enjoy yourselves in Sibaria? I understand you flew the doctor there last week. Klytus kindly fed me the information."
• (Ornella Muti) "Klytus? He wants me himself. His agents are always making up lies about me."

• (Zogi, the High Priest) "Do you, Ming the Merciless, Ruler of the Universe, take this Earthling Dale Arden, to be your Empress of the Hour?"
• (Max von Sydow) "Of the hour, yes."
• (Zogi, the High Priest) "Do you promise to use her as you will?"
• (Max von Sydow) "Certainly."
• (Zogi, the High Priest) "Not to blast her into space?"
• (Zogi, the High Priest) "Uh, until such time as you grow weary of her."
• (Max von Sydow) "I do."
• (Melody Anderson) "I do NOT."

• (Dr. Hans Zarkov) "We are only interested in friendship. Why do you attack us?"
• (Max von Sydow) "Why not? Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would've hidden from it in terror."

• (Max von Sydow) "Klytus. What is he doing?"
• (Peter Wyngarde) "I don't know, sir. It looks like some kind of barbaric sport."

• (Max von Sydow) "Klytus. Are your men on the right pills? Maybe you should execute their trainer."

• (Max von Sydow) "Every thousand years, I test each life system in the Universe. I visit it with mysteries, earthquakes, unpredicted eclipses, strange craters in the wilderness -- If these are taken as natural, I judge that system ignorant and harmless; I spare it. But if the Hand of Ming is recognized in these events, I judge that system dangerous to us. I call upon the great god Dyzan, and for his greater glory --"
• (Max von Sydow) "-- and for our mutual pleasure --"
• (Max von Sydow) "-- I destroy it utterly."
• (Doctor Hans Zarkov) "You're saying -- it's my fault the Earth is being destroyed?"
• (Max von Sydow) "Precisely -- Doctor."

• (Max von Sydow) "I'd much rather see you on my side, than scattered into -- atoms."

Peter Wyngarde as Klytus

• (Peter Wyngarde) "Now the tributes from Ardentia."
• (George Harris) "Your Majesty, we, the people of Ardentia, we have suffered since you blasted our kingdom. I can offer you nothing this year, except my loyalty."
• (Peter Wyngarde) "Prince Thun, we prize nothing more highly. And tell us, how great is this loyalty to your emperor?"
• (George Harris) "Without measure."
• (Max von Sydow) "We are delighted to hear it; fall on your sword."
• (Max von Sydow) "Show us this loyalty, throw yourself onto your sword."
• (George Harris) "May this deed of Prince Thun be an example to all the kingdoms of Mongo; death to Ming."
• (Melody Anderson) "Ugh."

• (Peter Wyngarde) "Should we stop the torture?"
• (Max von Sydow) "No."
• (Ornella Muti) "Father. Damn you, Father."

• (Peter Wyngarde) "Bring me -- the bore worms."
• (Ornella Muti) "No. Not the bore worms."

• (Peter Wyngarde) "The tributes of the Hawkmen will be first."
• (Melody Anderson) "Are we dreaming?"
• (Sam J. Jones) "I'd like to think so."
• (Brian Blessed) "The fabled ice jewel of Frigia; we seized it in battle from the royal crypt."
• (Timothy Dalton) "Stop. The ice jewel is our tribute, not Vultan's."
• (Timothy Dalton) "Vultan stole it while we were burying our dead on Frigia"
• (Brian Blessed) "Liar."
• (Timothy Dalton) "You are a thief."
• (Brian Blessed) "What?"
• (Brian Blessed) "Aargh."
• (Peter Wyngarde) "Put down your weapons. No one, but no one, dies in the palace without a command from the Emperor."
• (Timothy Dalton) "Hail, Ming."
• (Brian Blessed) "Aargh."
• (Peter Wyngarde) "Vultan. You obey, or you sacrifice your daughter."
• (Brian Blessed) "Hail, Ming."

Sam J. Jones as Flash Gordon

• (Sam J. Jones) "This isn't happening, Dale. We're not here. It's just a bad dream."
• (Melody Anderson) "Oh, I agree completely. We'll wake up in any minute in Dock Harbor and have a laugh about this."
• (Sam J. Jones) "Only this time I won't just ask the maitre d' your name. I'll walk over and talk to you."
• (Melody Anderson) "You promise?"
• (Sam J. Jones) "I promise. Cross my heart and hope to -- I really will talk to you, Dale."

• (Sam J. Jones) "My God."
• (Melody Anderson) "What is this, a civic reception?"
• (Sam J. Jones) "More like a police state."
• (Dr. Hans Zarkov) "If it is, that could be our good luck."
• (Sam J. Jones) "Why?"
• (Dr. Hans Zarkov) "It means we'll find allies on every side. Look at them, the poor wretches are just waiting for someone to lead them in revolt."
• (Sam J. Jones) "Are you looking at me, Zarkov?"
• (Dr. Hans Zarkov) "Yes."
• (Melody Anderson) "Please, stop talking about revolts, I just want to get back home alive."

• (Sam J. Jones) "I demand to see the governor. I can hardly breathe in this thing."
• (Peter Wyngarde) "Yes, you don't look well. I'm told you refused your final meal. The chef will be upset."
• (Sam J. Jones) "Tell 'em to go to hell."
• (Peter Wyngarde) "Maybe just as well. Gas works more quickly on an empty stomach. Any final requests?"
• (Sam J. Jones) "Yes, let me see Dale. Right away."
• (Peter Wyngarde) "Oh, dear. How pathetic. Yes, I anticipated that."

• (Dr. Hans Zarkov) "Look at them. The poor wretches are just waiting for someone to lead them in revolt --."
• (Sam J. Jones) "Oh, are you looking at ME, Zarkov?"

• (Sam J. Jones) "This Ming is a psycho."
• (Ming's Floating Servant) "This Ming is a psycho."
• (Peter Wyngarde) "Who said that?"
• (Ming's Floating Servant) "The fair-haired prisoner."
• (Peter Wyngarde) "Who are you?"
• (Sam J. Jones) "Flash Gordon. Quarterback. New York Jets."
• (Melody Anderson) "Dale Arden, Your Highness. Live and let live, that's my motto."

• (Sam J. Jones) "Biro's hit. I'm going in after him."
• (Brian Blessed) "Grrrr. Impetuous boy."
• (Brian Blessed) "Ah, well; who wants to live forever?"
• (Brian Blessed) "DIVE."

• (Sam J. Jones) "Biro. You alright?"
• (Biro) "They just winged me."

• (Ming's Floating Servant) "Long live Flash. You've saved your Earth. Have a nice day."
• (Sam J. Jones) "Yeah."

• (Sam J. Jones) "Where am I?"
• (Ornella Muti) "Back from the dead. I've saved you."
• (Sam J. Jones) "My God. How?"
• (Ornella Muti) "By magic, of course. With a kiss, because I like you."

• (Sam J. Jones) "I'm flying blind on a rocket-cycle."

Melody Anderson as Dale Arden

• (Melody Anderson) "It won't turn over. It won't turn over."

• (Melody Anderson) "Just hold me two seconds, then drop me so I can kiss the ground."

• (Hedonia) "It has no name. Many brave men died to bring it here from the Galaxy of Pleasure -- It will make your nights with Ming more -- agreeable."
• (Melody Anderson) "Will it make me forget?"
• (Hedonia) "No, but it will make you not mind remembering."

• (Melody Anderson) "Flash, Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth."

• (Melody Anderson) "I'm a New York City girl. It's a little too quiet around here for me."

• (Melody Anderson) "So that's why they let us escape; Klytus thought he'd wiped out your memory."
• (Dr. Hans Zarkov) "But do you know why it really failed?"
• (Melody Anderson) "I can't imagine."
• (Dr. Hans Zarkov) "As I was going under, I started to recite Shakespeare, the Talmud, the formulas of Einstein, anything I could remember, even a song from the Beatles."
• (Dr. Hans Zarkov) "It armored me, girl; they couldn't wipe those things away. You can't beat the human spirit."

John Hallam as Luro

• (John Hallam) "They were brave creatures Vultan."
• (Brian Blessed) "SHUT UP."
• (John Hallam) "With respect. The men who rid us of Klytus should not be deserted."
• (Brian Blessed) "Will you shut up. So. Maybe I'd do it different. If I had it over again."
• (John Hallam) "Then FIGHT."
• (Brian Blessed) "But there's no way I could help a man who's dead."

William Hootkins as Munson

• (Dr. Hans Zarkov) "What do you find? The moon out of orbit?"
• (William Hootkins) "By more than 12 degrees. This must be some sort of mistake."
• (Dr. Hans Zarkov) "No, it's no mistake -- IT'S AN ATTACK. I've been right all these years."

• (William Hootkins) "Dr. Zarkov. There's no sun. It's 8:24 in the morning, and there's no sun."

• (Dr. Hans Zarkov) "I swear, Munson, I'll shoot."
• (William Hootkins) "Get shot or go up in that thing? What's the difference?"
• (Dr. Hans Zarkov) "This way, you'll be giving your life to save the Earth. Haven't you any spirit at all?"
• (William Hootkins) "NO."

Ornella Muti as Princess Aura

• (Ornella Muti) "Look. Water is leaking from her eyes."
• (Max von Sydow) "It's what they call tears, it's a sign of their weakness."

• (Ornella Muti) "Fly back to your kingdom. You may see me sooner than you think."
• (Timothy Dalton) "Lying bitch."

• (Ornella Muti) "But my father has never kept a vow in his life."
• (Melody Anderson) "I can't help that, Aura. Keeping our word is one of the things that make us -- better than you."

• (Ornella Muti) "They've changed the code."
• (Timothy Dalton) "I've changed too, Aura."
• (Ornella Muti) "And I've changed, too."
• (Dr. Hans Zarkov) "Oh, it's okay. I think I can work it out."
• (Timothy Dalton) "I love you. Will you marry me?"
• (Ornella Muti) "I don't know, we'll try --"
• (Ornella Muti) "Not now, Barin --."
• (Timothy Dalton) "You haven't changed --"
• (Ornella Muti) "If I'm not at the wedding, I'll be shot"
• (Dr. Hans Zarkov) "A-ha. I thought it was one of the prime numbers of the Zenith series. I haven't changed."

Timothy Dalton as Prince Barin

• (Timothy Dalton) "Freeze. Yer bloody bastards."

• (Timothy Dalton) "Freeze, you bloody bastards."

• (Timothy Dalton) "Listen. There is something finer in this galaxy than Ming's law."
• (Brian Blessed) "RUBBISH."

• (Timothy Dalton) "Welcome back from the grave."
• (Timothy Dalton) "I knew you were up to something, though I'll confess I hadn't thought of necrophilia?"

• (Timothy Dalton) "Tell me more about this man Houdini."

Mariangela Melato as Kala

• (Mariangela Melato) "We're going to empty your memory as we might empty your pockets -- Doctor."
• (Dr. Hans Zarkov) "Don't empty my mind. Please, I beg you. My mind is all I have. I've spent my whole life trying to fill it."

• (Mariangela Melato) "Open fire. All weapons, now. Charge the lightning field. I take personal responsibility in the Emperor's name."

• (Colonel of Battle Control Room) "General Kala, Flash Gordon approaching."
• (Mariangela Melato) "What do you mean 'Flash Gordon approaching'?"
• (Colonel of Battle Control Room) "On a Hawkman rocket cycle. Shall I inform His Majesty?"
• (Mariangela Melato) "Imbecile. The Emperor would shoot you for interrupting his wedding with this news. Fire when Gordon's in range."
• (Mariangela Melato) "He's escaping, idiot. Dispatch war rocket 'Ajax' to bring back his body."

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