PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING BEFORE PURCHASING. THIS IS NOT A RETAIL SET NOR IS THIS IS A COMMERCIAL STUDIO RELEASE. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR HIGH DEFINITION DVD QUALITY PROGRAMS, YOU WILL BE SADLY DISAPPOINTED. When a mysterious beam of light starts disrupting and destroying the Earth's atmosphere, Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe), Dr. Zarkov (Frank Shannon), and Dale Arden (Jean Rogers) - accidentally accompanied by wisecracking reporter Happy Hapgood (Donald Kerr) - swing into action in Zarkov's rocketship, believing that it could be coming from the planet Mongo. Once in space, however, they discover that the ray is originating from Mars. Cast Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon Jean Rogers as Dale Arden Charles B. Middleton as Ming the Merciless Frank Shannon as Dr. Alexis Zarkov Beatrice Roberts as Queen Azura Info From Wikipedia Your Serial comes on a DVD-R in a hard shell DVD case with case insert for easy identification. All of our Serials Have Menus. This Classic Serial is in the Public Domain. Thousands of motion pictures are in the Public Domain because they were 1: Released without Copyright Notices; 2: Were never registered with the Library of Congress, had improper or late registrations; or 3: Were not properly renewed under the old requirements for films made before 1964. I will replace any defective disc.