Top Secret!
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| 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 John Williams |
| Cinematography | Christopher Challis |
| Editing by | Francoise Bonnot Bernard Gribble |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | June 22, 1984[1] |
| Running time | 90 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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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 World War II films and Elvis films. The original music score is composed by Maurice Jarre. The film is marketed with the tagline "Movie? What movie?"
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[edit] Plot summary
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 to perform in a cultural festival. (Curiously, East Germany still seems to be controlled by Nazis and under attack by the French Resistance.) Whilst there, he becomes involved in a 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 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 ... Nick Rivers
- Lucy Gutteridge ... Hillary Flammond
- Peter Cushing ... Bookstore Proprietor
- Jeremy Kemp ... General Streck
- Christopher Villiers ... Nigel 'The Torch', Resistance Leader
- Warren Clarke ... Colonel von Horst
- Harry Ditson ... Du Quois, Resistance Member
- Jim Carter ... Déjà Vu, Resistance Member
- Eddie Tagoe ... Chocolate Mousse, Resistance Member
- Omar Sharif ... Agent Cedric
[edit] Production notes
- This was Val Kilmer's first film role.
- Val Kilmer actually sings the songs in the movie,[2] and he also performed songs in The Doors (1991).
- Michael Gough and Val Kilmer starred together eleven years later as Alfred and Bruce Wayne respectively in Batman Forever (1995).
- The song the horse sings is "Du, Du Liegst Mir Im Herzen", a North German folk song of about 1820.
- The East German National Anthem music is from the Zucker brothers' high school alma mater.
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