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Bookmark this pageTop Secret! (1984)
Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
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From Time Out Film Guide
Having spoofed one genre with considerable success, the Airplane team cast their net wider to send up a host of venerable movie chestnuts. Set in a peculiar national and temporal limbo, it has US teen rock idol Nick Rivers (Kilmer) travelling to Nazified East Germany to entertain culturally deprived Iron Curtain bobby-soxers. The gags come thick, fast and arbitrary - surfing gags, Pacman gags, Steve McQueen Great Escape gags - all aimed at the belly or lower, with a variable strike rate. The first half chugs along quite happily, but whereas in Airplane the jokes could simply be strung on a hand-me-down storyline, here the demands of the plot start to play havoc with the levity. Signs of desperation have begun to creep in some time before the end.Author: JP
Cast & crew
Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Producer: Jon Davison, Hunt Lowry
Cast: Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Peter Cushing, Christopher Villiers, Jeremy Kemp, Warren Clarke, Michael Gough, Omar Sharif full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 90 mins
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