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28 October 1955 (Belgium)
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France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel'...
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For Swashbuckler Fans Only and a Watch is Enough
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Tony Curtis | ... | Rene de Traviere / The Purple Mask |
 | Colleen Miller | ... | Laurette de Latour |
| Gene Barry | ... | Capt. 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 |
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82 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Continuity: The cart enters a French forest to the sound of a jungle bird.
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"The Purple Mask" is a standard swashbuckler with not much pretensions on the line of the masked avengers that fight for what they think right in a hidden personality (tha "Zorro" series, "The Scarlet Pimpernel" or "The Black Tulip" could be clear examples).
Most colorful and rather fast in its development (which is good) the film is in the limit of entertainment for fans of the genre. Romance and acceptable swordplay are there too.
A young Tony Curtis in the main role is no Errol Flynn, but he reaches the level of the movie. Angela Lansbury, Dan O'Herlihy, Gene Barry and John Hoyt (a usual villain) are there too. Robert Cornthwaite doesn't fit as Napoleon, and it is hard to believe that Bonaparte would take so much trouble with just a lonely masked guy that is against his plans for dominating Europe.
Just a watch is enough even if you are a swashbucklers fan.