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Top Secret! 
Theatrical release posterDirected by Jim Abrahams
David Zucker
Jerry ZuckerProduced by Jon Davison
Hunt LowryWritten by Jim Abrahams
David Zucker
Jerry Zucker
Martyn BurkeStarring Val Kilmer
Lucy Gutteridge
Omar Sharif
Peter Cushing
Michael Gough
Jeremy Kemp
Christopher VilliersMusic by Maurice Jarre Cinematography Christopher Challis Editing by Françoise Bonnot
Bernard GribbleDistributed by Paramount Pictures Release date(s) June 8, 1984[1] Running time 90 minutes Country United States Language English Box office $20,458,340 Top Secret! is a 1984 comedy film directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker. It stars Val Kilmer (in his first feature film), Lucy Gutteridge, Omar Sharif, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough and Jeremy Kemp. The film is a parody of the GDR era and Elvis films. The original music score is composed by Maurice Jarre.
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Plot
Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer) and Hillary Flammond (Lucy Gutteridge) break the fourth wall after Hillary says, "It all sounds like some bad movie".
The film tells the story of Nick Rivers (Kilmer), an American pop singer (whose songs sound suspiciously like those of Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys and Little Richard), who goes to East Germany (but the film, anachronistically, also parodies Nazi Germany) to perform at a cultural festival. While there, he becomes involved in the French resistance movement and helps the beautiful Hillary Flammond (Gutteridge) rescue her father (Gough), a brilliant scientist being held by the Germans and forced to build the deadly Polaris naval mine.
The film also features short performances by Omar Sharif as Agent Cedric, and Peter Cushing as a Swedish bookstore proprietor, in a scene filmed completely in reverse.
Cast
- Val Kilmer as Nick Rivers
- Lucy Gutteridge as Hillary Flammond
- Peter Cushing as Bookstore Proprietor
- Jeremy Kemp as General Streck
- Christopher Villiers as Nigel "The Torch", Resistance Leader
- Warren Clarke as Colonel von Horst
- Harry Ditson as Du Quois, Resistance Member
- Jim Carter as Déjà Vu, Resistance Member
- Eddie Tagoe as Chocolate Mousse, Resistance Member
- Omar Sharif as Agent Cedric
- Michael Gough ... Dr. Paul Flammond
See also
References
External links
- Top Secret! at the Internet Movie Database
- Top Secret! at AllRovi
- Top Secret! at Rotten Tomatoes
- Top Secret at Box Office Mojo
Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker Collaborative works The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) · Airplane! (1980) · Police Squad! (1982) · Top Secret! (1984) · Ruthless People (1986) · The Naked Gun (1988–1994)David Zucker films The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) · The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) · BASEketball (1998) · My Boss's Daughter (2003) · Scary Movie 3 (2003) · Scary Movie 4 (2006) · An American Carol (2008)Jim Abrahams films Big Business (1988) · Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990) · Hot Shots! (1991) · Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) · Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)Jerry Zucker films Categories:- 1984 films
- American films
- English-language films
- 1980s comedy films
- American spy films
- Films directed by David Zucker
- Films directed by Jerry Zucker
- Films directed by Jim Abrahams
- Films set in Germany
- Paramount Pictures films
- Parody films
- Slapstick films
- Spy comedy films
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