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The Purple Mask

The Purple Mask (1955)

50% User Rating
1h 22min
Adventure

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...

H. Bruce HumberstoneDirector

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Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis

Rene de Traviere / The Purple Mask

Colleen Miller

Colleen Miller

Laurette de Latour

Gene Barry

Gene Barry

Captain Charles Laverne

Dan O'Herlihy

Dan O'Herlihy

Brisquet

Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury

Madame Valentine

George Dolenz

George Dolenz

Marcel Cadonal

John Hoyt

John Hoyt

Rochet

Donald Randolph

Donald Randolph

Andre Majolin

Robert Cornthwaite

Robert Cornthwaite

Napoleon Bonaparte

Stephen Bekassy

Stephen Bekassy

Baron de Morleve

Paul Cavanagh

Paul Cavanagh

Duc de Latour

Myrna Hansen

Myrna Hansen

Constance de Voulois

Allison Hayes

Allison Hayes

Irene de Bournotte

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Jane Howard

Yvonne de Tressy (as Betty Jane Howarth)

Carl Milletaire

Carl Milletaire

Edouard

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Gene Darcy

Vicomte de Morsanne

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Robert Hunter

Baron de Vivianne

Richard Avonde

Richard Avonde

Roger

Britt Lomond

Britt Lomond

Raoul (as Glase Lohman)

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Diane DuBois

Sabine

Everett Glass

Everett Glass

Father Brochard

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Olga Andre

Customer (uncredited)

Charles Bastin

Charles Bastin

Gendarme (uncredited)

George Baxter

George Baxter

Official (uncredited)

Eugene Borden

Eugene Borden

Napoleon Officer (uncredited)

Louis Borel

Louis Borel

Workman (uncredited)

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George Bruggeman

French Officer (uncredited)

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Peter Camlin

Colonel (uncredited)

Adrienne D'Ambricourt

Adrienne D'Ambricourt

Madame Anais (uncredited)

Jean De Briac

Jean De Briac

Count de Chauvac (uncredited)

Jane Easton

Jane Easton

Marie du Pontblanc (uncredited)

Ralph Faulkner

Ralph Faulkner

Opponent (uncredited)

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Richard Flato

Orderly (uncredited)

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Albert Godderis

Old Servant (uncredited)

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Donald Lawton

Passerby (uncredited)

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Joseph Romantini

Gendarme (uncredited)

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Orderly (uncredited)

Reviews (1)

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Rating 60%

November 14, 2022

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, ambitious "Duc de Latour" (Paul Cavanagh). It's all a bit theatrical, but has a great cast including Gene Barry, Dan O'Herlihy and Angela Lansbury to help keep it rollicking along in a fun, enjoyable fashion. The script, such as it is, isn't up to very much but that's made up for by the overall joie-de-vivre of the whole escapade and I quite enjoyed it.

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