| Flash
Gordon Conquers Universal
Pictures: The
3rd Serial |
| Ch.
10: Milady Sonja -- in Strip and Serial |
|
Anne
Gwynne's blonde "bad girl" Lady Sonja contrasts ... |
... with Carol Hughes' brunette "good girl" Dale Arden. |
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In
the Sundays, Sonja was an clueless sexpot
who threw herself at Flash Gordon. |
Saturday's Lady Sonja may look sexy, but she is
a
wily agent of her treacherous Emporer. |
|
Flash
is impervious to Lady Sonja's
feminine wiles in the movie serial. |
The newspaper Flash just didn't
seem to 'get it' about Sonja. |
|
Dale was
stupidly jealous of Sonja whenever
Raymond drew them in the same story. | Dale
has another moment of stupid jealousy in
the movies: Did you find Sonja
interesting? |
|
Heartless
Lady Sonja is ALWAYS a minion
of Ming the Merciless in 1940. | Sonja
started out as an ally of the Earthpeople in the
Outlaws of Mongo sequence
from 1937
to 1938. |
|
Sonja
even took a raygun blast for Flash in 1938. | Lady
Sonja does the blasting in 1940. |
|
Lady
Sonja escapes Barin's prison with lunk-
headed Captain Torch in tow. | Hell
hath no fury! Repeatedly-spurned Sonja freed the
vile Emperor after Flash
FINALLY captured him. |
|
Sunday's
Sonja made a deal with the devilish Ming to be
crowned Emperess of Mongo if
he regained his throne. | Saturday's
Sonja takes a tour of Barin's
palace, with Dale Arden along as a hostage. |
|
Dale almost
escapes Lady Sonja's clutches, but
succumbs
to the blast of a gas bomb. | Sonja's
plot was all-too-successful, and
Emperor Ming regained his power. |
|
Sunday Sonja's
story came to a sad end, as
Ming the Merciless executed his bride. | Ming's
Rocketeers emerge in gas masks to
carry Dale Arden and Lady Sonja away. |
|
Flash catches
up with the escapees, but he and Torch
fall off the palace wall -- into the
moat. | Flash
Gordon usually relied on a single punch to
put his adversaries out of action
in the strip. |
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