Rose Winters is a Berlin spy posing as a journalist, and is the main antagonist in the 2016 Dad's Army film. She is portrayed by Catherine Zeta-Jones. She is first seen visiting Walmington-on-Sea.
Background[]
Rose Winters was from public school and was tutored by Wilson whom developed a crush on her but decided against it as he was older than her.
Dad's Army (2016)[]
In the film, Winters claimed to be a magazine writer who had come to write a story about the Home Guard to boost morale. In reality, she is really there to find out if the base in Dover has Allied forces so the German High Command will know whether the Allies are going to invade Normandy or the Pas-de-Calais.
During the time with the platoon, Rose uses her age and womanly charms on the platoon to get the information she wants as well as trying to get in their patrol near the Dover base, while their she gets undeniable proof when a force of tanks stationed there turned out to be balloons due to a high wind blowing all the tanks away. However, things go wrong for her with Frank Pike falling for her causing Vera Shilton to accidentally discover her radio set. When Rose held Vera at gunpoint, Vera destroyed the radio set forcing Rose to make drastic changes to her plan.
Rose, now realising the Allies would be on to her as she cannot get out of the time as they have sealed off the town, signals for a U-boat to rescue her. She places all her radio equipment in Wilson's home so that he'll be implicated as the spy and tricks Mainwaring into believing her giving her time to meet up with the U-boat.
While waiting at the beach for the sub, Mainwaring having arrested Winston came to inform her. Only to be held at gunpoint by both Rose and the arrived Wehrmacht troopers. When Mainwaring sees Vers tied up to one of the ant-tank defenses at the beach and is going to drown as the tied came in. In the end however her plans are foiled by the combined efforts of the Home Guard and the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Seeing that the battle is lost and the boat to the submarine destroyed Rose in desperation swims for the U-boat with Mainwaring after her. She was subdued and arrested by MI5, foiling her plan and the Germans having no evidence of the Allied deception.
Trivia[]
- Catherine Zeta-Jones appeared as Sala in the 1996 movie "The Phantom".
- Catherine Zeta-Jones appeared as the evil Velma Kelly in the 2002 musical Chicago.
- Catherine Zeta-Jones appeared as Patricia Whitmore in the 2012 comedy musical film "Rock of Ages".
- Catherine Zeta-Jones appeared as Victoria Siebert in the 2013 film "Side Effects".
- Catherine Zeta-Jones appeared as Katja Petrokovich in the 2013 sequal film "Red 2".
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