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Top Secret! is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Jim Abrahams released in USA on 8 june 1984 with Val Kilmer

Top Secret! (1984)

Top secret!

Top Secret!
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Released in USA 8 june 1984
Length 1h30
Directed by ,    ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Action,    Adventure,    Spy
Rating71% 3.5991053.5991053.5991053.5991053.599105

Top Secret! is a 1984 action comedy film directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, whose previous picture had been Airplane! 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 both the musicals starring Elvis Presley and spy films of the Cold War era. The original music score was composed by Maurice Jarre.

Synopsis

Nick Rivers (Kilmer), a United States rock star, has the number one song in America ("Skeet Surfing"). He travels to East Germany to perform at a cultural festival, and at a dinner, he sees the beautiful Hillary Flammond (Gutteridge), a member of the resistance movement, attempting to avoid the authorities. He pretends to be her date to get to know her, and performs an impromptu song and dance ("Tutti-Frutti") mistakenly thinking that he was asked to do so, to the delight of Hillary and the crowd but to the annoyance of the emcee who intended to introduce someone else. He later sees Hillary at a ballet, where she is trying to meet with a resistance contact, but is met by the police instead. Nick saves her and they try to escape, but Nick turns himself in so that Hillary can get away. He is taken to a prison where he is questioned and tortured, but he knows nothing and does not break. In an escape attempt, he ends up in the secret lab of Dr. Paul Flammond (Gough), a brilliant scientist developing the "Polaris naval mine", a device that can destroy the entire NATO submarine fleet; the Germans force him to work by threatening to kill his daughter Hillary. Nick is recaptured and scheduled for execution.

Actors

Val Kilmer

(Nick Rivers)
Lucy Gutteridge

(Hillary Flammond)
Omar Sharif

(Agent Cedric)
Peter Cushing

(Bookstore Proprietor)
Michael Gough

(Dr. Paul Flammond)
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