I love this movie so much

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

. . . nearly half as bad as America's current dire straits. About 20% of the characters portrayed in the 1900s England of this CONSPIRATOR flick are Russian Red Commie KGB tools or sympathizers. A poll taken this week in the USA disclosed that slightly more than 40% of Today's U.S. population currently falls under the sway of American Strongman Putin, making up his "base" of "core supporters." Stalin's master spy CONSPIRATOR "Mike" has the "back story" of being a third generation representative of an I.R.A. malcontent Crime Family. Putin's master spy "Donnie" has a similar background as the grandson of New York City's wealthiest pimp, and the son of a KKK Community Organizer. Mike man-handles and shoots at his wife, cackling that no one will believe her as he burns the evidence of his treason. CONSPIRATOR Donnie is a court-documented spouse rapist, cackling that no one will believe his brazen mistreatment of many other women (who are keeping Putin's spin masters on the 24-hour Putin TV channel working overtime). CONSPIRATOR emphasizes the need to round up and liquidate or deport all of the KGB traitors, tools, and enablers threatening to overrun 1900s England. Today's CONSPIRATOR viewers may well recognize a similar necessity to round up, liquidate or deport all of Putin's U.S. traitors and their dupes, ASAP.

This is as much a response to samhill5215's review of CONSPIRATOR as it is a review of the film itself. Sam Hill seems to think that paranoia about Soviet infiltration of the West was unjustified, even though around the same time this film was being made (1949) the Rosenbergs were selling nuclear secrets to the Russians and Philby was funneling intel to them from his perch over in England.Sam wonders why Elizabeth Taylor's character -- who the film paints as being naive and apolitical -- would be rattled to discover that she'd married a Soviet spy. I wonder if Sam would be making the same observation if the time line were adjusted to World War II and Taylor had learned her husband was a Nazi.I suppose it matters not to Sam that Mao and Stalin together killed approximately 94 million people. 94. Million.Nine-four, Sam. Million. The number is beyond staggering. It defies belief.Adolph Hitler, one of the most evil humans of the 20th century, was a piker by comparison.But according to Sam, regardless of this kind of unprecedented barbarity, Liz's character was just a Silly Billy to care so much.Unbelievable.The movie itself is okay, but far from great. It's well photographed and professionally acted... the story is intriguing... but it all feels rather insubstantial, as if several important scenes were missing.Perhaps it got butchered in the editing room.Too bad. Like samhill's review.

A teenage American hottie arrives for a visit to the UK and fall in love with a 38-year-old English military man. For some unclear reason he falls for her as well, so they get married.The teen wife, however, soon learns that her perfecto husband is in fact a Soviet spy. How does she learn it? Well, she finds in his pocket a typed letter saying – and I quote almost verbatim – "In view of my success in obtaining secret information for the USSR, I'd like to have a personal interview with the head of Soviet intelligence." I'm not kidding – the letter was not coded in any way, and it had the word "Soviet" printed in plain language. Poor Liz, finding and reading it, literally blanches. Her hubby is a Russian spy! He's a traitor! It's unclear, however, as to why the word "traitor" should have any strong meaning for her – she's not from the UK, but from another country altogether, so she's basically a traitor herself – betraying her motherland on a whim of romance.Ah, traitors… This word features prominently in an earlier scene where a bunch of guys discuss intelligence matters. "They are criminals!" an older dude proclaims angrily. I wonder why such strong emotion concerning treason, seeing as England has not been in a serious defensive war since 1760s. (The only exceptions are Napoleon 1812 and Hitler 1940 – and in both those cases it was Russia who saved the British ass from becoming enslaved by France and Germany.) There were tons of AGGRESSIVE wars of course – but is it appropriate to talk about criminal behavior when your country's been slaughtering innocent folks all over the globe for centuries? Poor Russia in this movie is presented as a Sort-of-Enemy, while America's presented as an ally. Weird considering that Russia never ever fought England nor betrayed it crassly, while the Americans both fought it and betrayed it - by signing the Declaration of Independence.The Founding Fathers of America are doubtless the biggest English traitors ever. Biggest. Traitors. Ever. Because of them, Britain lost millions of miles of fabulous land, trillions of pounds in money, incalculable amounts of mineral resources, and had its military and geopolitical prestige undermined forever. But let bygones be bygones, I guess.In a conversation with friends where both husbands and wife were present, Liz says contemptuously : "My husbands decided to give up his career – he's gonna be a Communist instead." Everybody present thinks it's a joke on her part, of course, but Liz is full of venom. Those terrible commies! It doesn't bother her that she, an 18-year-old girl, is served around the house by a lady in her mid-fifties – she never for a moment questions the justice of it. "No one is, like, forcing her to serve me, right? Let her eat cake or whatever." Yeah, servants are great; commies suck.But on the whole, taking into account the time and historical circumstances when this movie was made, it's a pretty decent picture with a number of effective scenes and a passable performance from ET – something that not all her movies can boast.

ELIZABETH TAYLOR certainly grew up in a hurry. Her studio quickly took advantage of her blossoming beauty and at the ripe old age of 17 she was shipped off to London to star opposite the studio's big heartthrob ROBERT TAYLOR in a story about espionage (during the height of the cold-war in America).The result was not exactly a smash, but at least their fans got to see them together playing husband and wife. Neither gives a really bad performance but there's just something not quite valid about the plot that has Liz discovering her hubby is a spy for the Soviets--and soon catches on to the fact that he has been assigned to dispose of her.It's practically a two-character film, with HONOR BLACKMAN in a supporting role as Liz's friend. Taylor is about as menacing as he was in UNDERCURRENT (which isn't saying much) but still looks great, and Liz certainly looks and acts more adult than she actually was at the time. For looks alone, they make a dream team.It holds the interest because of the espionage angle, but isn't a distinguished piece of work in any way whatsoever and has been largely forgotten today.