The Purple Mask

Sinopse

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...

5.0
1955
Released
1h 22m

Tony Curtis

Rene de Traviere / The Purple Mask

Colleen Miller

Laurette de Latour

Gene Barry

Captain Charles Laverne

Dan O'Herlihy

Angela Lansbury

George Dolenz

John Hoyt

Donald Randolph

Robert Cornthwaite

Stephen Bekassy

Paul Cavanagh

Myrna Hansen

Allison Hayes

Jane Howard

Yvonne de Tressy (as Betty Jane Howarth)

Carl Milletaire

Gene Darcy

Robert Hunter

Richard Avonde

Britt Lomond

Raoul (as Glase Lohman)

Diane DuBois

Sabine

Everett Glass

Father Brochard

Olga Andre

Customer (uncredited)

Charles Bastin

Gendarme (uncredited)

George Baxter

Official (uncredited)

Eugene Borden

Napoleon Officer (uncredited)

Louis Borel

Workman (uncredited)

George Bruggeman

French Officer (uncredited)

Peter Camlin

Colonel (uncredited)

Adrienne D'Ambricourt

Madame Anais (uncredited)

Jean De Briac

Count de Chauvac (uncredited)

Jane Easton

Marie du Pontblanc (uncredited)

Richard Flato

Orderly (uncredited)

Albert Godderis

Old Servant (uncredited)

Donald Lawton

Passerby (uncredited)

Joseph Romantini

Gendarme (uncredited)

Lomax Study

Orderly (uncredited)

Status

Released

Original Language

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Reviews

@Geronimo1967about 3 years ago

This is a sort of "Zorro" meets the "Scarlet Pimpernel" - a colourful, swashbuckling offering from Bruce Humberstone that allows our hero Tony Curtis to pretty much run riot! He is the flamboyant, debonaire Royalist determined to rescue his friends, ransom the agents of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and engage in a bit of flirting with the daughter "Laurette" (Coleen Miller) of the plotting, amb