7.30.2006
Princess Aura in Flash Gordon(1980)
TITLE: Princess of the BloodHOME: Mingo City, planet Mongo.BUDDIES: Ming, Barin?.
ENEMIES: Everyone but Barin, at some point.
ROLE: Ming's daughter. Saves Flash from execution so she can 'have' him. Then gets tortured and banished to Fridgia by her dad for doing so. Then helps everyone overthrow Ming. Oh yes, she gets whipped as well. Strapped to a table and whipped...
Flash Gordon Background:
- Tagline: He'll save every one of us!
- Plot Outline A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyrant, Ming the Merciless, to save Earth.
- Plot Synopsis: In this update of the 1930's comic strip, Flash is a football hero who is skyjacked aboard Dr. Zarkov's rocketship along with beautiful Dale Arden. The threesome are drawn into the influence of the planet Mongo, controlled by Ming the Merciless.
Ming has been testing the Earth with unnatural disasters, and deeming it a threat to his rule, he plans to destroy it. He also intends to take Dale as his concubine. Flash must avoid the amorous attentions of Ming's daughter and unite the warring kingdoms of Mongo to rescue Dale and save our world.
Birth name: Francesca Romana Rivelli
Date of birth : 9 March 1955, Rome, Italy
The Flash Gordon DVD is available from Amazon.com.
