In between the disaster movie satire Airplane! in 1980 and the hardboiled cop show parody The Naked Gun in 1988, the comedy crew of Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker put together a picture that's almost as funny as their better-known hits. Top Secret! sends up spy movies and cheesy teen rock 'n' roll musicals. Val Kilmer stars as swivel-hipped American rocker Nick Rivers, a sort of blonde Elvis whose secret weapon is Little Richard's tune "Tutti Fruitti." On tour behind the Iron Curtain, Nick strikes blows for democracy overtly and covertly, with his music as well as his espionage skills. In short, this is a very, very silly motion picture. Some great gags, including a subtitled scene in a Swedish book shop, and an inspired bit with a Ford Pinto that not everybody may get anymore. (The Pinto, you may or may not recall, was notoriously prone to gas tank explosions when rear-ended.) --Jim Emerson, Amazon.com
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Omar Sharif | Agent Cedric |
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Jeremy Kemp | General Streck |
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Warren Clarke | Colonel von Horst |
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Tristram Jellinek | Major Crumpler |
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Val Kilmer | Nick Rivers |
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Billy J. Mitchell | Martin |
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Major Wiley | Porter |
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Gertan Klauber | Mayor |
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Richard Mayes | Biletnikov |
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Vyvyan Lorrayne | Madam Bergerone |
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Nancy Abrahams | Pregnant Woman |
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Ian McNeice | Blind Souvenir Vendor |
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John Sharp | Maitre D' |
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Lucy Gutteridge | Hillary Flammond |
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Michael Burlington | Waiter |
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Marcus Powell | Little German |
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Louise Yaffe | Cafe Diner |
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Charlotte Zucker | Cafe Diner |
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Susan Breslau | Cafe Diner |
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Helen Kahan | Cafe Diner |
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Burton Zucker | Chef |
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Richard Pescud | Priest |
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John J. Carney | Klaus |
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Orla Pederson | Bruno |
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Russell Sommers | Student |
| Director | Jim Abrahams |
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| Jerry Zucker |
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| Writer | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Martyn Burke | |
| Producer | Jim Abrahams, Jon Davison, Tom Jacobson, Hunt Lowry, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | |
| Musician | Maurice Jarre | |
| Photography | Christopher Challis | |
| Edition | Special Edition |
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| Packaging | Keep Case |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] Dolby Digital Stereo [French] Dolby Digital Mono [French] Dolby Surround Dolby Digital Surround [English] |
| Subtitles | English | Greek |
| Distributor | Paramount |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | 2002 |
| Regions | Region 2 |