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rguably the best set-piece features Sam J. Jones’ Flash and Timothy Dalton’s Prince Barin fighting to the death on Vultan’s Sky City. The was hollow metal and it had a hard rubber tip, but it could still hurt you. The disc was probably 25-30 feet ground] and there was a lot of falling – thank God we would fall into these stacked boxes. It was a real dance, but a lot of times we didn’t follow the choreography, meaning that when Timothy and I were tumbling and rolling…” “It was undoubtedly the most exhausting [sequence],’’ says Mike Hodges. “It looked really dangerous, and one had to make it up as one went along because there were only certain things you could do without endangering Sam and Timothy. But Brian Blessed’s energy level was very exhilarating.” “The whole time they were fighting on that disc, I couldn’t stop laughing,” Melody Anderson recalls. “I almost had to go to the bathroom. The whole time I’m laughing, because Brian just kept talking!”