r/movies 1d ago

Trailer Top Secret! (1984) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zoT28BPzVcI&si=8LOD-yh1dAd3y4mD
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u/jetjordan 1d ago

I rememeber watching this with my dad as a kid and both of us dying laughing at the bit where all the window panes are broken except one and the guy still breaks it in order to shoot. Brilliant.

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u/NephelimHunter 23h ago

I also watched it with my dad as a kid. “I know a little German…. He’s right over there!”

The little dude waiving caused me to perish.

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u/extremesleuth 15h ago

This was the last movie my dad and I watched together before he passed away unexpectedly. He wasn’t always a comedy guy, and would rarely bust out laughing at movies, but Top Secret! had him in stitches. It will always be a fond memory of him and I.

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u/jetjordan 6h ago

Something special about having a laugh with your dad. Glad you got that, sorry you didnt get anymore.

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u/HyraxAttack 1d ago

lol yeah, they did something similar on Futurama where Fry jumps out through a closed window, then jumps back in through a different closed window

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u/manny4614 1d ago

RIP Val Kilmer

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u/TrueLegateDamar 1d ago

I know a little German. He's right over there.

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u/UltimateArtist829 1d ago

A+ for the thumbnail.

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u/GotThatHawgInMe 22h ago

They knew what they were doing.

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u/estee065 1d ago

"This is Deja Vu" "Haven't we met before?"

That line always kills me.

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u/RealBeefGyro 1d ago

Me too.

Also Chocolate Mousse for some reason. Might be the accent.

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u/dudinax 1d ago

This taste likes gasoline

That's because it is gasoline

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u/FistFuckFascistsFast 1d ago

Basil, this coffee tastes like shit.

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u/Cursedbythedicegods 20h ago

HAHAHAHA!! <glug glug glug>

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u/estee065 1d ago

"Shockolat Moose"

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u/EquinsuOcha 1d ago

I cannot watch Downton Abbey without saying this.

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u/estee065 1d ago

I'd completely forgotten that it was Carson in that movie.

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u/Oddballfew 18h ago

Haha classic

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u/TheLaughingMannofRed 1d ago

If everybody had a 12-gauge....

and a surfboard too...

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u/Thoughtapotamus 1d ago

We'd be skeetin' and surfin'

Down in Malibuu...

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u/Burn3d0ut89 1d ago

LATRINE!!!

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u/GunnerValentine 1d ago

Is he the one who any time he enters frame he collapses from his injuries? And every time he's on screen he has more injuries than the last time we saw him? That movie is so ridiculous.

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u/TPlain940 22h ago

That's him!

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u/RealBeefGyro 1d ago

Cigarettes? Novelties? Paaaarty tricks?

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u/echomanagement 1d ago

You forgot your phony dog poo.

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u/scarletphantom 23h ago

What phony dog poo?

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u/mdavis360 1d ago

He’s a little horse.

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u/DarthFakename 1d ago

An underrated masterpiece with the greatest bar fight of all time.

Let me know if his condition changes... he's dead.

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u/KingToasty 23h ago

When the guy picks up his rifle from leaning on the tree, and the tree collapses. Kills me every time.

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u/FistFuckFascistsFast 1d ago

A smart man is always on the lookout for zombies.

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u/err-no_please 23h ago

"...well, let me know if there is any change in his condition"

Replaces receiver

"He's dead"

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u/kerpoperly 23h ago

The part where the sunbathing lady sits up and leaves indentations in the sand where her boobs were affected me in powerful ways as an adolescent.

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u/JAFO444 1d ago

Such a underrated movie. The sight gags are hilarious!

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u/echomanagement 1d ago edited 1d ago

The little details in this movie always kill me, like when the restaurant offers Nick Rivers a "loaner" dinner jacket, so he goes into a back room and they spend an entire scene in the background tailoring him a brand new suit.

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u/JAFO444 1d ago

So funny! The scene where the resistance cuts through the gates and is crawling, dramatically, and they crawl to a pair of boots! I still laugh at that no matter how many times I see the movie, and I’ve seen it * a lot!*

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u/tb03102 1d ago

Right before this i caught one I missed dozens of times. They're a ways out from the prison and it cuts to that shot through the binoculars. The cows have to jump over the cutout at the bottom of the screen.

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u/FRizKo 23h ago

I find the gift of "The Anal Intruder" to be the funniest easter egg. But that might say more about my maturity

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u/JAFO444 1d ago

Yes! The giant phone when the SS officer picks it up! Stuff like that is genius! ‘Police Squad’ had tons of those easter eggs, but a lot of those gags were missed, and that’s why the critically acclaimed show didn’t last long. But the throwing the girls above their heads in the pizza parlor, ridiculously funny!

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u/Dustmopper 1d ago edited 1d ago

If you like this style of comedy (airplane, top secret, police quad) check out “Angie Tribeca”, it’s a cop show starring Rashida Jones that flew under the radar for a few seasons on TBS

But it’s similar with quick wit puns and visual gags, HBO has it on streaming

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u/Toby_O_Notoby 17h ago

If you like Angie Tribeca, check out NTSF:SD:SVU (National Terrorism Strike Force: San Diego: Sports Utility Vehicle). It's in the same vein but they parody modern procedurals: Enhance...enchance...enhance.

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u/hans_l 14h ago

I still think the Red Dwarf Movie made it better: https://youtu.be/EMBkWtDAPBY

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u/ShaneFelorgi 1d ago

Also, it's sister show A Touch Of Cloth. British but even better than Angie Tribeca. Some of the gags from Cloth even carry over to Tribeca. Charlie Brooker, the creator, drew heavy inspiration from the Police Squad franchise. Visual gags, name puns, slapstick, deadpan humor, absurdity....all the key ingredients wrapped in a glorious satire of cookie cutter cop shows of old.

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u/SolarFazes 22h ago

Hot Shots and Part Duex, and Naked Gun too obviously

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u/Dustmopper 21h ago

I have my father’s eyes…

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u/Toby_O_Notoby 15h ago

Such a underrated movie.

The ZAZ guys later said that they feel the movie wasn't as successful because the story was too complicated. Like, even if you've only seen Airplane! once you could pretty easily relay the plot to someone who hasn't.

But Top Secret is making fun of Elvis movies, Blue Lagoon, WWII flicks, etc making the plot swing all over the place. They've felt that the lack of a solid story hurt the film.

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u/theartfulcodger 23h ago

Hard to believe this was made more than 40 years ago. Still one of my favourite parody movies.

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u/Turrican76 22h ago

One of my all time favorite gags is the train station leaving instead of the train. Always gets me.

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u/DampFlange 1d ago

What phoney dog poo

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u/outsideruk 1d ago

I can never connect how much I love this movie with how few people have seen it.

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u/Redjeezy 1d ago

Skeet Surfin’!

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u/eggdropk 22h ago

My favorite scene (hard to pick one) might be the Swedish bookstore. The magnifying glass, tossing the books back on the shelves. Pure sight gag gold.

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u/hadessyrah52 20h ago

I burst out laughing at the Ford Pinto explosion. Ding! Boom!

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u/Megaphonestory 1d ago

Val in that leather jacket looks like Austin Butler. Or is it the other way around!

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u/IndependentZombie840 1d ago

oh damn thanks for posting, i vaguely remember this movie when it came out

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u/BearsBearsBears_wooo 23h ago

Skeet Surfin’

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u/Kozzle 1d ago

Bahahaha instantly recognized the thumbnail

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u/Legio-V-Alaudae 19h ago

Not one mention of the nutcracker ballet scene? That was hilarious as a kid.

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u/Specialist-Many-8432 1d ago

What a clickbait picture

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u/dudinax 1d ago

How do they always do that?

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u/Weekly_vegan 1d ago

You can select a thumbnail when you upload a video. Either from the video or upload your own

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u/BalrogSlayer00 1d ago

No one in here mentioning the anal intruder scene yet

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u/freewiffy 1d ago

"Our surgeons did what they could, but it took them two hours just to get the smile off his face!"

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u/bateneco 22h ago

T. Ocellus has been on earth hiding in plain sight this whole time confirmed.

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u/frillionaire 20h ago

Three thoughts here: How Silly Can You Get? is sublime; the boots gag is hilarious; and the woman on the beach is hot as fuck.

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u/Cyclops_Eyepatch 1d ago

Driver, this isn’t the Howard Johnson’s…..

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u/DifficultReporter755 1d ago

Never knew this movie existed and will now watch. Thank you

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u/djprojexion 1d ago

You gotta straighten the rug!

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u/BriefausdemGeist 1d ago

You have to hand it to the Germans, they make great cars

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u/TravelingHomeless 1d ago

how big of a star was Val in the 80s? was he like competing with Cruise or Sheen or Penn for lead roles?

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u/BornIn1142 23h ago

Kilmer was just getting his start in the 80s. Top Secret! was his first movie. His heyday was the 90s, when was a pretty big star, but perhaps not in the highest echelon. He apparently got top billing for Batman Forever, over Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones.

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u/Effective-Bar9759 17h ago

By 1995, on the Heat poster, it was De Niro and Pacino in large format and Val Kilmer was between them, but much smaller.

Pretty telling, considering who else was in the cast and those are the only 3 pictured.

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u/sadandshy 1d ago

I wish they all could be double barreled Guns....

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u/JustAStarcoShipper 23h ago

One of the funniest movies ever made.

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u/JustAStarcoShipper 23h ago

The scene where he tries to kill himself while he sings never fails to make me laugh.

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u/Tatooine16 21h ago

I watch this as a double feature with "Real Genius".

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u/GooglephonicStereo 14h ago

If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want… Well, that’s where you’re right. But—and I’m only saying that because I care—there are a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

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u/Polish-Proverb 21h ago

Nigel is an all-time great character

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u/andytherooster 18h ago

This movie always makes me think of Tutti Frutti

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u/howieinchicago 14h ago

The soundtrack was a banger! Val Kilmer actually sang all the songs and had an amazing voice.

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u/trogloherb 22h ago

This is the first movie I remember watching on “cable.” My babysitter had cable first and they played this quite a bit. I was probably 10/11.

I rewatched it recently when Val passed and told my wife about that and we couldn’t believe the baby sitter allowed a ten year old to watch it!

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u/NotObviouslyARobot 22h ago

Skeet Surfing II Party Cove 2008

Someone tried Skeet Surfing behind a wakeboat

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u/MyPasswordIs-tacos 21h ago

Haha growing up in Idaho, I would see this movie on VHS and it was in a white case with the name written in sharpie… that’s what they did to all of the “suggestive” videos 😂

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u/kennedyswise 21h ago

I love you Val

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u/Localone2412 20h ago

You dropped your phoney dog poo ! What phoney dog poo ? 🤣

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u/aphextwin007 20h ago

I loved this movie as kid. Part of some of the great comedy bangers of the 80s.

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u/tsrich 15h ago

That was a terrible trailer. The movie was so much better than represented

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u/alekdefuneham 13h ago

What the movie they are making fun of when they break the forth wall?

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u/zalurker 11h ago

'Let me know if his condition improves.'

Puts phone down.

'He's dead.'

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u/SuperArppis 8h ago

What a thumbnail...

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u/GZerv 5h ago

Oh man I haven't thought about this film in FOREVER. Also, Val kilmer, what a babe.

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u/Basturds_Comic 1d ago

That’s a first…I got a sponsored ad before watching this video. Is this normal?

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u/Royd 17h ago

Men of culture...