| Flash
Gordon Conquers Universal
Pictures: The
3rd Serial |
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Ch.
4: Hail Frigia, A Frigid Hell -- Searching for Elusive
Polarite
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The
Earthlings fled to Frigia with Prince Ronal to take
the heat off Arboria in 1939.
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Flash, Dale, and Zarkov lead an expedition to Frigia
in search
of the exotic compound Polarite during the 1940
serial. |
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A
whole new miniature set awaits our
heroes as they land their Rocket Ship in frozen Frigia.
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Flash's Rocket Ship made a
forced landing due to ice in
the Sunday strip |
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Trouble
always found the fugitives -- they
abandoned ship before glacial ice crushed them.
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Flash, Dale, and some Arborians, with maybe a
Frigian guide or two, go searching for trouble -- uh,
Polarite. |
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A
brigade of skiers rescued
Ronal and the Earth People in 1939.
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The opening credits of 1940 always end with two slick
sequences
featuring soldiers on skis, but these guys never appear
in the serial. |
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An
avalanche buried the Rocket Ship which
carried
Flash, Dale, Zarkov, and Ronal in 1939.
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One of Ming's Rocket Ships starts an avalanche that
nearly
burries Flash, Dale, Prince Barin, and new character
Roka in 1940. |
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The
fugitives cooled their heels in an ice cave before
Queen Fria and her crew rescued them.
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Flash
Gordon's contingent falls into a crevasse, luckily
cushioned by tumbling snow. Prince Barin is the only
one injured. |
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The
1940 serial features a literally COOL flare-lit nighttime
rescue scene, which has no equivalent in the strip.
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The
Earthlings
get busy mining Polarite right away in 1940.
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Flash
Gordon spent a year with Fria from 1939-40. |
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