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The Purple Mask (1955)

The Purple Mask (1955)

Adventure
Release Date: 1955, June 15
Directors: H. Bruce Humberstone
Countries: United States of America
Production: Universal International Pictures
Cast: Angela Lansbury, Gene Barry, Eugene Borden, Adrienne D'Ambricourt, Jean De Briac, Carl Milletaire, Dan O'Herlihy, Tony Curtis, John Hoyt, George Bruggeman, Peter Camlin, Donald Lawton

Overview:

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...