Top Secret!
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Top Secret! is a 1984 comedy directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker. It stars Val Kilmer, 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.
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Plot summary
The film tells the story of Nick Rivers (Kilmer), an American pop singer (whose songs sound suspiciously like those of Elvis Presley and The Beach Boys), 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 (known for his extensive work in horror films, and as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars) as a Swedish bookstore proprietor, in a scene filmed completely in reverse.
Trivia
- The film is apparently set in the autumn, as the East German attack is planned for the same day that the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah occurs.
- Most of the "German" spoken in the film is actually Yiddish.
- This is Val Kilmer's first feature film. He and Michael Gough would go on to co-star again in Batman Forever in 1995.
- There is a Hitler wall clock spoofing the famous Mickey Mouse wristwatch.
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