Top Secret! (1984)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.0/10   

Directors:

Jim Abrahams
David Zucker

Escritores:

Jim Abrahams (writer) &
David Zucker (writer) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

8 junio 1984 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Comedia | Romance

Frase comercial:

Movie? What movie?

Plot:

Parody of WWII spy movies in which an American rock and roll singer becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany.

Plot Keywords:

Spy | East Germany | Elvis | Bar Fight | Plane

Comentarios de los usuarios:

very underrated

Reparto

Val Kilmer	...	Nick Rivers
Lucy Gutteridge	...	Hillary Flammond
Peter Cushing	...	Bookstore Proprietor
Jeremy Kemp	...	General Streck
Christopher Villiers	...	Nigel 'The Torch', Resistance Leader
Warren Clarke	...	Colonel von Horst
Harry Ditson	...	Du Quois, Resistance Member
Jim Carter	...	Déjà Vu, Resistance Member
Eddie Tagoe	...	Chocolate Mousse, Resistance Member
Omar Sharif	...	Agent Cedric
Tristram Jellinek	...	Major Crumpler
Billy J. Mitchell	...	Martin, Nick's Manager
Major Wiley	...	Train Porter
Gertan Klauber	...	Mayor of Berlin
Richard Mayes	...	Comrade Biletnikov, Russian Tenor

También conocida como:

Super secreto (Venezuela) [es]
Top Secret (Spain) [es]
Top Secret! (Argentina) [es]

Duración:

90 min

País:

USA | UK

Idioma:

Inglés | Alemán | Yiddish

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Argentina:Atp | Iceland:L | Portugal:M/6 | Australia:M | Canada:14A | Finland:K-12 | Ireland:15 | Netherlands:MG6 | Norway:15 | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | UK:15 | USA:PG | West Germany:12 | Singapore:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

Godrevy, St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK

Compañía:

Kingsmere Properties

Trivialidades:

In the restaurant scene, when Hillary places an order with the waiter in apparent German, she's actually speaking in Yiddish. A rough translation of her line is, "Go bash your head in."

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: In the "Pizza Haus" dance, when Nick (Val) runs up the wall and back flips, the cable of his trapeze rig is visible.

Citas:

Martin: Nick, I've tried everything: the embassy, the German government, the consulate. I even talked to the U.N. ambassador. It's no use, I just can't bring my wife to orgasm.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (2004) (VG)

Banda de Sonido:

A HARD DAYS NIGHT

very underrated

The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team, master of the rapid-fire humor and insane spoofs, strike again! This time with "Top Secret!", which is a very underrated movie that, in my humble opinion, is just as good as "Airplane!" (which of course is considered their best work).

I don't understand it - what makes this film inferior to "Airplane!"? There are just as many jokes, the jokes are just as good, the timing is as always perfect. Am I missing something? Is it just that "Airplane!" was bold in breaking barriers for spoof movies, setting a precedent that "Top Secret!" was just there to follow?

That's not to diminish the quality of "Airplane!", which is one of my favorites. But what's wrong with "Top Secret!"? Why only a 6.6 rating? It must be from those purists who don't understand movies like this, and don't like this movie because the plot is not as well-developed as the plot of "Airplane!" Don't get me wrong - ordinarily a more developed plot only makes a movie funnier, but in the case of a spoof like this, the plot isn't important (it has often been said that the plot is just a "clothesline" for the jokes in such movies). Those purists completely miss the point of this movie.

Watch this movie unless you're one of those blasted aforementioned purists. If that is the case, go watch "The Philadelphia Story" for the thousandth time.