The Purple Mask

The Purple Mask

1955 · 82 min · ★ 5.8 · 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...

Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone · Written by Oscar Brodney

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