Blue Panther

Marie-Chantal contre le docteur Kha (lit. 'Marie-Chantal versus Dr. Kha') is a 1965 spy film directed by Claude Chabrol. The film stars Marie Laforêt as Marie-Chantal, a young woman who gets caught up with a group of spies led by Dr. Kha who seek out a jewel called the Blue Panther. The jewel was passed on to her by the secret agent Bruno Kerrien. Unbeknownst to Marie-Chantal, it contains a terrible virus capable of wiping out humanity. Marie-Chantal contre le docteur Kha was one of the many European co-productions from the 1960s that made spy films following the worldwide success of the James Bond film series that decade. Chabrol, who was one of the directors in the French New Wave, had made a turn to more commercially-oriented projects in the 1960s with films like Mar