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    Top Secret! (1984)

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    The Kentucky Fried Movie and Airplane! team of Jim Abrahams and David and Jerry Zucker is a touch off-form with this Cold War spoof that has an Elvis Presley-style musical grafted on.

    Part of the problem is the absence of Leslie Nielsen. Instead, Val Kilmer makes his feature debut, playing Nick Rivers – a rock star who becomes involved in a plot to reunite Germany when he plays a gig at a cultural festival behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany in the 1950s.

    There are cameos from Peter Cushing, Jeremy Kemp and, hilariously, Omar Sharif, while others dress up as cows, re-enact The Great Escape (1963) and shoot clay pigeons while surfing – it’s not as funny as it should be, but it’s entertaining enough.

    Nick Rivers
    Val Kilmer
    Cedric
    Omar Sharif
    General Streck
    Jeremy Kemp
    Colonel von Horst
    Warren Clarke
    Hillary Flammond
    Lucy Gutteridge
    Dr Flammond
    Michael Gough
    Major Crumpler
    Tristram Jellinek
    Bookstore proprietor
    Peter Cushing
    Albert Potato
    Sydney Arnold
    Du Quois
    Harry Ditson
    Nigel
    Christopher Villiers
    Deja Vu
    Jim Carter

    Director
    Jim Abrahams
    David Zucker
    Jerry Zucker

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