The Purple Mask

1955 PG-13 1h 22m

5.8 / 10 6

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5.8/10

YOUR RATING

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...

Director H. Bruce Humberstone

Writers

Oscar Brodney

Stars

Tony Curtis Colleen Miller Gene Barry

Tony Curtis

Rene de Traviere / The Purple Mask

Colleen Miller

Laurette de Latour

Gene Barry

Captain Charles Laverne

Yvonne de Tressy (as Betty Jane Howarth)

Raoul (as Glase Lohman)

Customer (uncredited)

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Charles Bastin

Gendarme (uncredited)

George Baxter

Official (uncredited)

Eugene Borden

Napoleon Officer (uncredited)

French Officer (uncredited)

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Peter Camlin

Colonel (uncredited)

Adrienne D'Ambricourt

Madame Anais (uncredited)

Jean De Briac

Count de Chauvac (uncredited)

Jane Easton

Marie du Pontblanc (uncredited)

Ralph Faulkner

Opponent (uncredited)

Old Servant (uncredited)

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Donald Lawton

Passerby (uncredited)

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Joseph Romantini

Gendarme (uncredited)

Lomax Study

Orderly (uncredited)

Adventure

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Geronimo1967 14 Nov 2022

6/10

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...