The Purple Mask

The Purple Mask

82 mins | Adventure | June 15, 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...

The Purple Mask

82 mins | Adventure | June 15, 1955

The Purple Mask
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...
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers Universal International Pictures
Original title The Purple Mask
Directors H. Bruce Humberstone
Writers Oscar Brodney

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

Allison Hayes

as Irene de Bournotte

Jane Howard

as Yvonne de Tressy (as Betty Jane Howarth)

Carl Milletaire

as Edouard

Gene Darcy

as Vicomte de Morsanne

Robert Hunter

as Baron de Vivianne

Richard Avonde

as Roger

Britt Lomond

as Raoul (as Glase Lohman)

Diane DuBois

as Sabine

Everett Glass

as Father Brochard

Olga Andre

as Customer (uncredited)

Charles Bastin

as Gendarme (uncredited)

George Baxter

as Official (uncredited)

Eugene Borden

as Napoleon Officer (uncredited)

Louis Borel

as Workman (uncredited)

George Bruggeman

as French Officer (uncredited)

Peter Camlin

as Colonel (uncredited)

Adrienne D'Ambricourt

as Madame Anais (uncredited)

Jean De Briac

as Count de Chauvac (uncredited)

Jane Easton

as Marie du Pontblanc (uncredited)

Ralph Faulkner

as Opponent (uncredited)

Richard Flato

as Orderly (uncredited)

Albert Godderis

as Old Servant (uncredited)

Donald Lawton

as Passerby (uncredited)

Joseph Romantini

as Gendarme (uncredited)

Lomax Study

as Orderly (uncredited)