What makes it different from others?

An action-packed slog

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

This movie is such a disappointment.There is a lot of talent here, especially in the acting dept but also in the cinematography. There are beautifully shot scenes. Hedy Lamarr is made to look beautiful almost past belief, not to mention very mysterious.But the script here is terrible. Really terrible. All the acting in the world could not save it. Yes, better directing could. Negulescu was certainly not Michael Curtiz.But it is the sometimes incoherent and always flat-footed script that does this movie in.Watch Casablanca again, even if it is for the 20th time. That's an astounding masterpiece. This is dead.

This is a thoroughly adequate film and not much more. It was intended to try to capitalize on the success of CASABLANCA. Despite Warner Brothers trying to recapture the magic of this earlier film, THE CONSPIRATORS just can't compare--mostly due to a very poor script and some poor performances. Now the parallels to CASABLANCA are there but the film isn't a remake. Instead, it's a slight reworking of the ideas and a few plot points. Many of the stars in the film were actually originally in CASABLANCA (Paul Henreid, Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorr).Henreid plays a Dutch freedom fighter who has escaped to neutral Portugal. His hope is to go from there to Britain, since he is a wanted man in Nazi occupied Europe. However, once in Lisbon, there is a long and complicated web of Nazis and anti-fascist operatives. Uncovering who were actually friends and who were double-agents was the main theme of the film.As for Henreid and Hedy Lamarr, they are agreeable enough people but just don't have the charisma to make us forget Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman from CASABLANCA. Henreid isn't really bad--he just isn't Bogie. As for Lamarr, she is the weakest link in the film. Like so many of her films, she is essentially a walking mannequin--wearing lots and lots of expensive costumes (common for her films) but also delivering a rather flat and emotionless performance. Had the part been written more multi-dimensionally, perhaps she would have been a greater asset to the film. Aside from her beauty, she added little to the film--especially since her romance with Henried seemed to come out of nowhere and there was little chemistry between them.As for the intrigue, it wasn't bad but it also wasn't particularly good. Plus, so many plot holes and inconsistencies made the film very slow going at the end. The finale seemed to drag and much of it just didn't make sense.Still, this is a decent wartime film--not great, but a decent enough time passer.

Jean Negulesco's "The Conspirators" sounded intriguing when the trailer was shown at TCM. It appeared as though it was well worth a look because of the cast alone. Well, it was a big disappointment!The story is convoluted, it is hardly plausible what the hero, Vincent, is able to pull, let alone, be allowed to enter Lisbon, at the crucial time when he arrives. The character of Irene remains an enigma throughout the film and finally, there is not enough to make this movie enjoyable.Paul Henried was a lucky man being in Hollywood while a lot of the American stars were away fighting in WWII. In this film he tries, but there's something about his Vincent that doesn't quite make it. Hedy Lamarr's presence in the movie is pretext to present her in different costumes. Henreid and Lamarr had not enough chemistry to make the film, at least, a nice love story.Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre are completely wasted and the rest of the players were not interesting enough to keep the viewer's attention at all times. Instead, one feels bored by the proceedings. At least Vincent and Irene, by the magic of the movies, will always have Lisbon!

The Conspirators is often compared to Casablanca. I agree that the latter movie was superior, in many ways. However, I don't think the similarities between these two movies were intentional. It was WWII, look at all the movies made about the war, and you will see numerous and consistent themes.I think this movie stands on its own merits. The cast is good and delivers consistently. Paul Henreid does not have the charisma of Humphrey Bogart, and Ingrid Bergman was always given credit for great performances, that she never quite deserved. She had a clean, fresh faced, innocent appeal, that seem to make people feel she had depth. She was also lucky enough to work with superior directors, and films with better scripts. She was good, but not great; however I loved Anastasia. Hedy Lamarr on the other hand, was so beautiful, that critics would not even consider that she could act. I think she was capable, but was too beautiful to be taken seriously; and I don't think she chose her films wisely.The Conspirators is a good film, with some flaws; but deserves to be considered on its own merits.