I am Dr Paul Flammond. I am a prisoner here, just like you.
A year ago, I was close to perfecting the first magnetic desalinisation process.
So revolutionary, it was capable of removing the salt from over million gallons of sea water a day.
Do you realise what that could mean to the starving nations of the earth?
They’d have enough salt to last forever.
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Top Secret is - among other things - the story of Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer), an American rock star who is invited to a cultural festival in East Germany. The trip takes on an ominous tone when it becomes clear that the Festival is a ruse and the East Germans (despite being a Soviet satellite state) are actually secret Nazis. To help with their whole taking-over-the-world thing, the Nazis East Germans kidnap eminent scientist Dr. Paul Flammond (Michael Gough), who has nearly perfected a water desalination machine. But the Germans have other plans, and force the good doctor to pervert his machine into a weapon of mass destruction.
You can guess the rest of the plan.
Nick gums up the works when he crashes a swanky dinner party and runs into Flammond’s daughter Hillary (Lucy Gutteridge), whom the police are pursuing. Because the plot requires it, Rivers immediately falls for her and decides to impress her with an impromptu musical number. This embarrasses the High Command - who also happen to be in attendance - and lands Nick in hot water. But it endears him to Hillary, who eventually discloses her status within the French Resistance, who are fighting to overthrow the government - presumably so that East Berlin can once again be proud and French.