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Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938) was a Action - Science Fiction Film directed by Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill and Frederick Stephani (uncredited) and produced by Henry MacRae and Barney A. Sarecky.

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The serial debuted in March of 1938, just seven months before the infamous Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" Halloween broadcast. To cash in on the controversy caused by the radio show, the studio edited the serial into a feature film, Mars Attacks the World, and released it to theaters in November of that year.
In the stock footage from Flash Gordon, shown in this film, as Flash is telling The Clay People about his previous encounter with Emperor Ming, Ming is bald and Dale Arden has blond hair. In this sequel, Ming has "pasted on" hair and Dale is a brunette. It has been reported that Jean Rogers (Dale Arden) had many other film roles pending at that time (1938) which had called for her to portray a brunette.
Chapter Titles:
  • 1. New Worlds To Conquer
  • 2. The Living Dead
  • 3. Queen of Magic
  • 4. Ancient Enemies
  • 5. The Boomerang
  • 6. Treemen of Mars
  • 7. Prisoner of Monga
  • 8. Black Sapphire of Kalu
  • 9. Symbol of Death
  • 10. Incense of Forgetfulness
  • 11. Human Bait
  • 12. Ming the Merciless
  • 13. Miracle of Magic
  • 14. Beasts at Bay
  • 15. An Eyes For An Eye

Much of the background music was originally used in Bride of Frankenstein. Also, the song that played in the background during the sequence recapping the previous chapter's events was the theme for The Invisible Man.
This was the final appearance of Jean Rogers as Dale Arden.
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