ABC Music Humpday Videos - "V" is for Val Kilmer (as "Nick Rivers" in "Top Secret!")

Now who doesn't love YOUNG Val Kilmer back when he was a young 20-something? Here he is in his debut film role as teen idol Nick Rivers in the 1984 cult classic, "Top Secret!" (a mashup parody of Elvis and WWII films). Incidentally, Val Kilmer really sings all the songs in "Top Secret!", foreshadowing his role as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's, "The Doors":


From the Wikipedia entry on "Top Secret!"

"The film tells the story of Nick Rivers (Kilmer), an American pop singer (whose songs sound suspiciously like those of Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys and Little Richard), who goes to East Germany (but the film also parodies films set in Nazi Germany) to perform at a cultural festival. While there, he becomes involved in a resistance movement and helps the beautiful Hillary Flammond (Gutteridge) rescue her father (Gough), a brilliant scientist being held by the Germans and forced to build the deadly Polaris mine.



The film also features short performances by Omar Sharif as Agent Cedric, and Peter Cushing as a Swedish bookstore proprietor, in a scene filmed completely in reverse."

This movie was all kinds of hilarious! There was a funny scene with Hammer Horror films regular, the great British actor Peter Cushing (better known as the Grand Moff Tarkin for you Star Wars geeks) holding a magnifying glass to his eye. When he removes it, his eye really IS huge!!! Ha ha! I also loved how  everytime Nick Rivers and his love interest would make out, fire places would show up. It's the silly kind of movie you'd expect from the creators of "Airplane!" another cult classic.

Val Kilmer, what happened to you?

From the Ultrahot Iceman...to modern day Sasquatch!!!

And as a palate cleanser...

OMFG, here he is as Jim Morrison..."I am the Lizard King!!!"...."Mother!!!!! I want to......"

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