Tania (Desperate Mission)

Tania (Leontine May aka Leontine Snell) is the lover and accomplice of Barrow (Gianni Rizzo), the head of a group of gangsters in the 1965 Eurospy film "Agente Z-55 - Missione disperata" (English title: "Desperate mission"; German: "Die Chance ist gleich null"). As all parties in the movie, they too are after Professor Larsen, who has been kidnapped by the Japanese in Hong Kong.
Tania enjoys playing the femme fatale, sitting in the back, smoking and giving orders. Although she is attracted to agent Connor, she is unswervingly loyal to Barrow, her boss.
== Plot ==
The gang try to use US agent O'Connor to locate Larsen by letting him operate under his false identity "Robert Manning". Tania is wary of him from the beginning, perceiving him as a danger. Having secured Larsen themselves, they encounter the agent on the docks.
Tania watches with interest as Barrow tortures Connor with a burning cigarette, and when Barrow tells him how he will die, "You will be placed in the tube and then crushed on the rocks", she adds with fake sympathy, "What a shame! He might have been useful for certain things". Then, they leave him to his fate - and he manages to overpower the goons and escape. Connor then finds Larsen and breaks him out.
When Barrow and Tania arrive at the place where they put Larsen, they get into a shootout. Barrow is hit on the arm, and Tania leaves the car to stand by him, fearfully beseeching him to escape. Barrow, although wounded, ignores her and wants to make a stand, still hoping to catch agent O'Connor and Larsen.
The agent, however, lights a fuse to the Chinese fireworks stored beneath the building on site before making his escape with Larsen. They watch from a distance as the place blows up.
Barrow and Tania, who were near the building, are killed in the explosion, their bodies lying on the rubble.
==Trivia==
*Leontine May aka Leontine Snell appeared as Selima , the evil Princess of Parthia in the 1964 Italian Peplum film, "Triumph of the Ten Gladiators", which was originally called "Il trionfo dei dieci gladiatori".
==Gallery==
Tania and Barrow at the docks.jpg
Barrow torturing O'Connor.jpg
Tania watches.jpg
Barrow explains to O'Connor how he will die.jpg
What a shame.jpg
Tania fearful.jpg
The place blowing up.jpg
Body.jpg
Category:1960s
Category:Brunette
Category:Conspirator
Category:Corpse
Category:Coward
Category:Failed Seduction
Category:Greedy
Category:Henchwoman
Category:Lawful Evil
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Offscreen Death
Category:Sadist
Category:Smoker
Category:Villain's Lover
Category:Demise: External Explosion
Category:Fate: Deceased