OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok

OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok (Banco à Bangkok pour OSS 117, 1964) — watch online on iFILM, a French spy action film directed by André Hunebelle. Agent Hubert Baff (OSS 117) is dispatched to Thailand after his contact Lemmon disappears. Kerwin Mathews plays Baff: unruffled, always armed, never without a smile.

The trail leads to Dr. Shin, a scientist who has developed a plague bacterium capable of killing most of humanity, with a vaccine he plans to keep for a chosen few. Pier Angeli plays Shin's daughter Lila; Robert Hossein rounds out the international cast. OSS 117 predates James Bond in print — Jean Bruce created the character in 1949 — and Hunebelle's films gave him a screen franchise across the 1960s. Competent Cold War pulp, no pretensions. Stream "OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok" (1964) online on iFILM.