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Top Secret!

1984 · directed by Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker and David Zucker · 90 min
22,780 feet · Prominence
1,539th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw51

Lifetime worldwide gross $21m, re-releases included; about $65m in 2026 money.

Rank3,722 of 11,051In 198444 of 112

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise73

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics73 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy45

Judged directly: ZAZ gag machine, deeply quoted cult.

Verdict45 of 100IMDb7.2 from 82kWikipedia17k views a monthAge42 years

Scored beside it · 1,441 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 51 praise 73 legacy 45averages 56, placing it at22,780 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Warren Clarke

In these careers — elevation for this film

Val Kilmer19,605 ftPeter Cushing18,050 ftWarren Clarke17,930 ftJim Carter17,853 ftOmar Sharif17,649 ftKathryn Mullen17,628 ft