Top Secret!
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| Directed by | Jim Abrahams David Zucker Jerry Zucker |
| Produced by | Jon Davison Hunt Lowry |
| Written by | Jim Abrahams David Zucker Jerry Zucker Martyn Burke |
| Starring | Val Kilmer Lucy Gutteridge Omar Sharif Peter Cushing Michael Gough Jeremy Kemp Christopher Villiers |
| Music by | Maurice Jarre |
| Cinematography | Christopher Challis |
| Editing by | Françoise Bonnot Bernard Gribble |
| Distributed 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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[edit] Plot
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.
[edit] 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
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Top Secret! at the Internet Movie Database
- Top Secret! at AllRovi
- Top Secret! at Rotten Tomatoes
- Top Secret at Box Office Mojo
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