Top Secret! is a 1984 comedy film directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, whose previous picture had been the highly successful 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.
Plot[]
The film tells the story of Nick Rivers (Kilmer), a US pop singer. Rivers goes to East 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 East 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 [edit][]
- 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
- Gertan Klauber as The Mayor
- Michael Gough as Dr. Paul Flammond
Soundtrack [edit][]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Artist | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Skeet Surfing" (Parody mix based on Little Honda, Surfin' U.S.A., and Fun, Fun, Fun) | Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Chuck Berry | Val Kilmer | 2:58 | |
| 2. | "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" | Lou Handman, Roy Turk | Val Kilmer | 1:32 | |
| 3. | "How Silly Can You Get" | Phil Pickett | Val Kilmer | 2:48 | |
| 4. | "Straighten Out the Rug" | Paul Hudson | Val Kilmer | 2:56 | |
| 5. | "Tutti Frutti" | Dorothy LaBostrie, Richard Penniman | Val Kilmer | 1:38 | |
| 6. | "Spend This Night With Me" | David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Mike Moran | Val Kilmer | 3:26 |