Top Secret!
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| Music by | Maurice Jarre |
| Cinematography | Christopher Challis |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $8.5-9 million |
| Box office | $20.5 million |
Top Secret! is a 1984 American action comedy film written and directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker. It stars Val Kilmer (in his film debut role) and Lucy Gutteridge alongside a supporting cast featuring 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.
Nick Rivers, a highly successful United States rock star ("Skeet Surfing"), travels to East Germany to perform at a cultural festival, which secretly serves the East German government as a diversion for an illegal 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, 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 General Streck, the mastermind of the "reunification" plot.
Nick 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, a brilliant scientist developing the "Polaris naval mine", a device that can destroy the entire NATO submarine fleet as part of the government's plot; the Germans force him to work by threatening to kill his daughter Hillary. Nick is recaptured and scheduled for execution.
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