Episode 613: Top Secret! (1984)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 241 minutes

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Summary

The boys from From the Files of Police Squad (in Color), our limited series about Police Squad! and The Naked Gun films are back and talking about something we didn't discuss there...

Released in 1984, Zucker Abrahams Zucker’s Top Secret is a send up of both Elvis movies and WWII espionage films. It’s a very odd duck which stars Val Kilmer as Nick Rivers, a teen idol who has made a name for himself with a series of songs about surfing and skeet shooting. Nick goes behind the Iron Curtain to East Germany where things haven’t changed much since WWII, especially that it’s Nazis in charge of everything, rather than the communist party. He becomes embroiled in intrigue though Nick Rivers sticks his neck out for nobody until he meets the gorgeous Hillary Flammond (Lucy Gutteridge) and her band of freedom fighters.

Chris Stachiw and Mark Begley join Mike to discuss the film while the episode features interviews with actors Ian McNeice and Christopher Villiers, screenwriter Martyn Burke, and writers/directors Jim Abrahams and David Zucker.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Shut it off.
0:25.5	Turn it off.
0:31.5	Andrew!
0:43.3	A wapabal blue bambalabam, a lot bamboo, to the fruity, oh Rudy, to the fruity, oh Rudy, to the fruity, oh Rudy, to the fruity, oh Rudy,
0:48.3	a wop of a luvambalobu Bambu.
0:51.3	Got a girl named Sue.
0:53.3	She knew just what to do. Got a girl named Sue. Me. She know just what to do.
0:56.0	Got a girl named Sue.
0:58.0	She know just what to do.
1:00.0	Look, I'm not the first guy who fell in love
1:02.0	of the girl he met in a restaurant who then turned out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist,
1:05.0	only to lose her to a childhood lover who she'd last seen on a deserted island,
1:09.0	and who turned out 15 years later to be the leader of the French underground.
1:11.6	I know it. It all sounds like some bad movie.
1:15.6	I got a girl named Daisy. She almost drowned me crazy.
1:20.6	Got a girl around me crazy.
1:22.6	She almost tried me crazy. She walked me to the east.
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