With another planet hurtling towards Earth, "Flash Gordon" (Buster Crabbe) decides to board an airplane in order to be with his father when the end finally comes. Sitting in the next aisle is an attractive young woman named "Dale Arden" (Jean Rogers) who becomes visibly shaken when the airplane runs into turbulence and the pilot advises everyone to bail out. Flash escorts her out of the airplane and they descend together safely in the pitch black night. Upon a landing they are greeted by a scientist named "Dr. Hans Zarkoff" (Frank Shannon) who tells them he has built a rocket ship which he intends to fly to the oncoming planet and try to divert it from its collision course. Figuring that they have nothing to lose, Flash and Dale volunteer to go with him. Now rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this film was initially broken down into three or more pieces with each played separately for a short period of time in conjunction with the featured presentation. It was only later that these pieces were put back together to form a complete movie. At least, that is what I understand. In any case, as one might expect from a movie produced in 1936 it was filmed in black and white and the special effects were extremely basic. Both of those are to be expected and I can't really fault the movie for either of these. However, what I didn't particularly care for was the dialogue which was about as elementary as anything I have ever seen. Likewise, the acting was rather poor and a number of the scenes could have used a bit more depth. But other than that this was an adequate movie for the most part and I rate it as about average.