The traitor Anna is exposed.
Anna (Gia Scala) is a traitor and a spy from the 1961 movie The Guns of Navarone.
She is part of a group of Greek Freedom fighters that assist a group of allied commandos on their World War II behind the lines mission to destroy a fortified gun emplacement in Navarone, Greece.
The guns are huge, long-range navel cannons protected by a solid rock mountain. They are being used to pick off Allied navel ships. Previous attempts to destroy the guns by ariel bombardment have failed.
The team of British, Greek, and American Commandos led by Capt. Keith Mallory (Gregory Peck). After landing in Greece via a fishing boat, the team of Commandos meet to female Greek Freedom fighters, Maria Pappadimos (Irene Papas) and Anna. Anna is very fragile as she was once caught and captured by the Nazis, who are occupying Greece.
Maria Pappadimos: They (the Nazis) whipped her until the white of her bones showed. Some nights we could hear her screaming. Then they took her to the fortress and they kept her there for six months. When they let her go, she could not speak. She has never spoken since, not even in her dreams…
The commandos have several mishaps including being captured by the Nazi SS. (SS = Schutzstaffel -'Protection Squadron').
Colonel Stavros exposes Anna's scarless back.
The commando team is able to escape and they take the SS officers uniforms. The group hides in a bombed-out building. Captain Mallory stands watch outside as the commandos sleep. Anna, who cannot sleep goes to Mallory and seduces him.
Later, the British Corporal Miller (David Niven) who is the demolitions expert discovers that his explosives equipment has been sabotage.
The team try and figure out who the double agent is and blame falls all Anna. The Greek Colonel Andrea Stavros (Anthony Quinn) tears open the back of Anna’s dress to reveal that there are no scars. She was said to have been whipped until the white of her bones showed through her skin but her back is perfect without a blemish.
They can’t take her and they can’t leave her, as the leader of the group Mallory, her former lover, is forced to shoot her. He draws his gun and Maria Pappadimos guns the traitor down with a hand held Mauser automatic equiped with a siliencer.
Trivia:
- The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 British-American epic adventure war film directed by J. Lee Thompson. The screenplay by producer Carl Foreman.
- The film was based on Alistair MacLean's 1957 novel The Guns of Navarone, which was inspired by the Battle of Leros during the Dodecanese Campaign of World War II. The book and the film share the same basic plot:
- In the book Anna was a man named Panayis.
Anna's perfect back reveals her shameful past.
Anna is questioned by Captain Mallory
The double agent is executed.
- David Niven who played Corporal John Anthony Miller, was in the British Commandos and was stationed in Greece during World War II.