The Purple Mask (1955)
82 min
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...
- Release date
- June 15, 1955
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Tony Curtis as Rene de Traviere aka The Purple Mask
- Colleen Miller as Laurette de Latour
- Gene Barry as Capt. 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
Crew
- H. Bruce Humberstone · Director
- Oscar Brodney · Writer
- Paul Armont · Writer
- Jean Manoussi · Writer
- Charles Latour · Writer
- Howard Christie · Producer
- Irving Glassberg · Cinematographer
- Ted J. Kent · Editor