The Ultimate Warrior (1975)
I discovered The Ultimate Warrior via an anecdote my Father told me, about a film that he had once seen in which "Telly Savalas got paid in cigars". I was somewhat flummoxed at the time but after a little research it became apparent that he meant Robert Clouse' 1975 science fiction movie. I finally got to see The Ultimate Warrior for myself in the late eighties on satellite. Turns out it was Yul Brynner and not Telly Savalas but it’s easy to get such iconic seventies slapheads confused. He was spot on about the payment in cigars though.
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