Top Secret!

Top Secret! (1984)

Timing: 1:30 (90 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1984-06-08

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Production

Paramount

Genre

Comedy

Budget

$9 000 000

Revenue

$20 458 340

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Director

Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker

Actors

Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Peter Cushing, Jeremy Kemp, Christopher Villiers, Warren Clarke, Harry Ditson, Jim Carter, Eddie Tagoe, Omar Sharif
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Scenario

Producer

Jon Davison, Hunt Lowry, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker

Operator

Christopher Challis

Composer

Maurice Jarre

Artist

Audition

Editing

Françoise Bonnot, Bernard Gribble
All team (14)

• The filmmakers played three German soldiers in one of the scenes.
• The Zucker brothers’ parents – Burton and Charlotte – also played small roles in the film.
• The songs that Val Kilmer sings in the film are actually performed by himself. They were released on the film's soundtrack under the name of Kilmer’s character – Nick Rivers.
• This is Val Kilmer's first role in a feature film.
• The "German" that Nick studies on the train isn't a language at all.
• The "Swedish" that Hillary speaks to the Swedish secondhand bookstore owner is actually English phrases spoken backwards.
• When Nick Rivers is in prison, a picture of Cher can be seen several times on the wall of his cell. Val Kilmer was dating her at the time.
• For the scene with the cow in boots, the soles were cut off two pairs of rubber boots, and then the boots were simply taped to the cow's feet.
• The waiter, who addresses Nick as if in German, is actually uttering a curse in Yiddish.
• In the photograph of newspapers reporting Rivers' performance at a festival in East Germany, two headlines read: «Scientists extend orgasm to double digits» and «Meteorite falls near child».
• The "Swedish" that Hillary speaks to the Swedish secondhand bookstore owner is actually phrases in English spoken backward.
• On the newspaper photos reporting that Rivers will perform at a festival in East Germany, two headlines read: "Scientists extend orgasm to double digits" and "Meteorite falls near child."