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Writers:
Jim Abrahams (writer) &
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Release Date:
8 June 1984 (USA) more
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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. full summary | full synopsis
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It doesn't get much sillier than this - and they even say so in song! more (138 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

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
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Runtime:
90 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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In the Swedish pizza-parlor all the Caucasian characters have vanilla shakes, Hillary Flammond, the female character, has a strawberry shake, and Chocolate Mousse, the Black character, has a chocolate shake. more
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Continuity: In the first shot of the prison cell, a food processor and its parts can be seen on the shelves. These are gone in subsequent shots. more
Quotes:
[on train at checkpoint]
Nick Rivers: Where are they taking him?
Colonel von Horst: They are not taking him anywhere.
[gunshot is heard off screen]
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Movie Connections:
Spoofs Loving You (1957) more
Soundtrack:
BONANZA more

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It doesn't get much sillier than this - and they even say so in song!, 24 February 2004
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Author: Peter Hayes from United Kingdom

An American rock and roll idol goes behind the iron curtain (while there was one!) for a culture fest but instead becomes involved in the resistance movement.

Forget about the film itself, the very idea of an Elvis Presley movie being mixed with a French resistance film and produced by the Airplane! crew is enough for laugh number one. Not only is this a bizarre world but seems to be playing games with time and history, the communist East Germany being portrayed as a kind of war time Nazi set-up!

Kilmer does well with an impossible role to the point where you wonder if he didn't miss his vocation. He can sing and dance better than many real singers and he proved in The Doors that he is really a major musical force. Strangely it is rumoured that he didn't realise this was a satire!

The stupidity of many Elvis movies and those Saturday morning children's reels (scientist and beautiful daughter) are taken to the cleaners and you have fantastic sight gags. The "falling guard" gag is one of the best sight gags in the history of movies - I challenge anyone not to laugh at it.

I enjoy a stupid movie every now and then and admit I enjoyed this one. Clearly the authors know little about German history or European culture and the little they do know seems cribbed from watching bad B movies on the subject, but what the hell. This is too stupid for anyone to get seriously uptight about. "How silly can you get?" sings Kilmer at one point in the film: Maybe a little, but not that much!

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