The Purple Mask (1955)

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone

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...

Cast

Tony Curtis

Rene de Traviere / The Purple Mask

Colleen Miller

Laurette de Latour

Gene Barry

Captain Charles Laverne

Dan O'Herlihy

Brisquet

Angela Lansbury

Madame Valentine

George Dolenz

Marcel Cadonal

John Hoyt

Rochet

Donald Randolph

Andre Majolin

Robert Cornthwaite

Napoleon Bonaparte

Stephen Bekassy

Baron de Morleve