Top Secret!

6/22/19841h 30m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Don't tell anyone. ~

Overview:

Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.

Director:

Jim Abrahams

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$9,000,000.00

Revenue:

$20,500,000.00

Key words:

surfing
rock 'n' roll
beach
airplane
prisoner
bookshop
liberation of prisoners
spy
parachute
autoradio
ballet
spoof
anarchic comedy

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

Warren Clarke

~ as ~

Colonel von Horst

Harry Ditson

~ as ~

Du Quois

Jim Carter

~ as ~

Déjà Vu

Eddie Tagoe

~ as ~

Chocolate Mousse

Omar Sharif

~ as ~

Agent Cedric

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
6
As spoofs go, this is an adequate vehicle for the handsome and charismatic Val Kilmer to squeeze into his 501s and take on the mantle of American rock star "Nick Rivers". He is invited to take part in a cultural exchange concert in the still militaristic East Germany and so, under the watchful eye of "Gen. Streck" (a super-hammy Jeremy Kemp) he has to stay out of trouble until his gig. Easier said than done though when he meets and falls for the feisty "Hillary" (Lucy Gutteridge) and is soon embroiled is a plot to rescue her scientist father (Michael Gough) from the scheming communists before he is forced to create a weapon to end all weapons. The joke looks pretty squarely aimed at Elvis this, and Kilmer makes a decent fist of the gyrating and hair-spraying. Indeed, had we a bit more of these scenes and less of the rather obvious and clumsy espionage malarkey, it might have been a better film. As it is, though, it plays the parody hand just a bit too heavily for me and after a while the cultural clashes appeared to be as much between the star and his largely British supporting cast as much as having anything to do with scheming generals. It's not a film that needs your concentration, it has a reasonably toe-tapping soundtrack and if you aim low, you ought not to be disappointed.