The Purple Mask
The Purple Mask
Release: 1955-06-15
·Runtime: 82m
·★ 5.0
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...
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Universal International Pictures
Cast
Robert Cornthwaite
as Napoleon Bonaparte
Myrna Hansen
as Constance de Voulois
Allison Hayes
as Irene de Bournotte
Lomax Study
as Orderly (uncredited)
Gene Barry
as Captain Charles Laverne
Angela Lansbury
as Madame Valentine
George Baxter
as Official (uncredited)
Louis Borel
as Workman (uncredited)
Ralph Faulkner
as Opponent (uncredited)
Tony Curtis
as Rene de Traviere / The Purple Mask
Colleen Miller
as Laurette de Latour
Eugene Borden
as Napoleon Officer (uncredited)
Dan O'Herlihy
as Brisquet
Stephen Bekassy
as Baron de Morleve
Carl Milletaire
as Edouard
Richard Avonde
as Roger
George Dolenz
as Marcel Cadonal
John Hoyt
as Rochet
Britt Lomond
as Raoul (as Glase Lohman)
Adrienne D'Ambricourt
as Madame Anais (uncredited)
Jean De Briac
as Count de Chauvac (uncredited)
Donald Randolph
as Andre Majolin
Paul Cavanagh
as Duc de Latour
Everett Glass
as Father Brochard
Jane Easton
as Marie du Pontblanc (uncredited)