The Purple Mask
Release Date: 1955-06-15
Overview: 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...
Rating: 5 / 10
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
Crew
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Oscar Brodney - Screenplay
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Howard Christie - Producer
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Irving Glassberg - Director of Photography
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Ted J. Kent - Editor
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H. Bruce Humberstone - Director
Reviews
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, deb...