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Summary

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

Paul Cavanagh

Duc de Latour

Myrna Hansen

Constance de Voulois

Allison Hayes

Irene de Bournotte

Jane Howard

Yvonne de Tressy (as Betty Jane Howarth)

Carl Milletaire

Edouard

Gene Darcy

Vicomte de Morsanne

Robert Hunter

Baron de Vivianne

Richard Avonde

Roger

Britt Lomond

Raoul (as Glase Lohman)

Diane DuBois

Sabine

Everett Glass

Father Brochard

Olga Andre

Customer (uncredited)

Charles Bastin

Gendarme (uncredited)

George Baxter

Official (uncredited)

Eugene Borden

Napoleon Officer (uncredited)

Louis Borel

Workman (uncredited)

George Bruggeman

French Officer (uncredited)

Peter Camlin

Colonel (uncredited)

Adrienne D'Ambricourt

Madame Anais (uncredited)

Jean De Briac

Count de Chauvac (uncredited)

Jane Easton

Marie du Pontblanc (uncredited)

Ralph Faulkner

Opponent (uncredited)

Richard Flato

Orderly (uncredited)

Albert Godderis

Old Servant (uncredited)

Donald Lawton

Passerby (uncredited)

Joseph Romantini

Gendarme (uncredited)

Lomax Study

Orderly (uncredited)

Crew

Director

H. Bruce Humberstone

Screenplay

Oscar Brodney

Reviews

Geronimo1967

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.