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Top Secret!
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.
1984 · Directed by Jim Abrahams · 90 min · Comedy · 27 frames
Tagline
Don't tell anyone.
Crew
- Screenplay: Jerry Zucker, Martyn Burke, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker
- Cinematography: Christopher Challis
- Edited by: Françoise Bonnot, Bernard Gribble
- Music: Maurice Jarre
- Production design: Peter Lamont, Michael Lamont
- Produced by: Hunt Lowry, Jon Davison
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
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English, Yiddish, German
- Studios: Paramount Pictures, Kingsmere
- Budget: $9,000,000
- Box office: $20,500,000
- Themes: surfing, rock 'n' roll, beach, airplane, prisoner, bookshop, liberation of prisoners, spy, parachute, autoradio
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