Juanita de Cordoba (Topaz)

Juanita de Cordoba (Karin Dor) was an antagonist in the 1969 Alfred Hitchcock espionage film "Topaz". The film was based on the 1967 Cold War novel Topaz by Leon Uris, and closely followed the 1962 Sapphire Affair.
The film was about a high ranking Russian official who defects to the United States, where he is interviewed by US agent Michael Nordstrom (John Forsythe). The defector reveals that a French spy ring codenamed "Topaz" has been passing NATO secrets to the Russians. Michael calls in his French friend and counterpart Andre Devereaux (Frederick Stafford) to expose the spies.
Juanita de Cordoba is the mistress of Andre Devereaux. She was the widow of a "hero of the Revolution". This enables her to work undercover in the resistance. 
Devereaux asks Juanita to take photos of the missles. Juanita's loyal domestic staff, Carlotta Mendoza (Anna Navarro) and her husband Pablo, pose as picnickers and photograph the missles. Pursued, the two hide the incriminating film before they are captured.
Cuban official Rico Parra (John Vernon) hears from the tortured Carlotta Mendoza that Juanita is their leader. When the film is later found in a search of her grounds, Juanita is shot by Parra while he is embracing her. He does this to save Juanita from extreme torture. Juanita wearing a purple dress, crumbles to the ground. The view is shown from above as her dress flattens out, it almost appears that it is the blood spreading out.
==Trivia==
*Karin Dor appeared as the henchwoman Helga Brandt in the 1967 James Bond film, "You Only Live Twice".
*Karin Dor appeared as the evil scientist Maleva Kerstein in the 1970 Spanish-German horror sci-fi film, "Assignment Terror".
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