Top Secret!
Top Secret! is a 1984 action comedy film written and directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker (ZAZ) and Martyn Burke. It stars Val Kilmer in his film debut and Lucy Gutteridge alongside a supporting cast including Omar Sharif, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, and Jeremy Kemp. The film parodies various film styles such as musicals starring Elvis Presley, spy films of the Cold War era and World War II films. The original music score was composed by Maurice Jarre.
Plot
Nick Rivers, an American rock star, travels to East Germany to perform at a cultural festival, which secretly serves the East German government as a diversion for a military operation with the intent of reuniting Germany under their rule. At a dinner, Nick encounters Hillary Flammond, a member of the local resistance movement who is attempting to avoid the authorities. He pretends to be her date to get to know her, and performs an impromptu song and dance, mistakenly thinking he was asked to do so, to the delight of Hillary and the diners, but to the annoyance of General Streck, the mastermind of the "reunification" plot.
More details
| author | David Zucker Jerry Zucker Jim Abrahams Martyn Burke |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Germany |
| director | David Zucker Jerry Zucker Jim Abrahams |
| editor | Bernard Gribble Françoise Bonnot |
| genre | action comedy |
| keywords | bar fight break in east germany end escape attempt fight force french resistance military operation morning nato nothing rescue rock star secret prison song and dance strand think |
| musicBy | Maurice Jarre |
| producer | Hunt Lowry Jon Davison |
| productionCompany | Kingsmere Properties |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| theme | action comedy parody slapstick spy spy comedy |