The Purple Mask (1955)
France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distress and kidnaps Napoleon's officials for ransom, aided by the spy services of a group of lovely models headed by Laurette (really the Duc de Latour's daughter). But even she doesn't know the Purple Mask's real identity as foppish dancing master Rene...
- Released
- 1955-06-15
- Genres
- Adventure
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Oscar Brodney, H. Bruce Humberstone
- TMDB rating
- 5.8/10 from 6 votes
Cast
- Tony Curtis as Rene de Traviere / The Purple Mask
- Colleen Miller as Laurette de Latour
- Gene Barry as Captain Charles Laverne
- Dan O'Herlihy as Brisquet
- Angela Lansbury as Madame Valentine
- George Dolenz as Marcel Cadonal
- John Hoyt as Rochet
- Donald Randolph as Andre Majolin
- Robert Cornthwaite as Napoleon Bonaparte
- Stephen Bekassy as Baron de Morleve
- Paul Cavanagh as Duc de Latour
- Myrna Hansen as Constance de Voulois