Robert and Elizabeth Taylor star in this weak film dealing with a woman discovering that her husband is a spy for the Soviet Union. I guess they were thinking of these things in 1949, at the height of the cold war.Elizabeth Taylor is absolutely churlish at the beginning of this film. She talks like an 8 year old and only shows some maturity required for the part when she discovers that her husband is a traitor.Bob Taylor seems uncomfortable in the role mainly because he was such a right-wing individual in real life.The picture probably would have been somewhat better had they showed some of his escapades in spying. How she discovers his infidelity is so predictable at best.The ending is pure soap opera.

(Some Spoilers) Uninteresting suspense/drama that has all-American heart throb and US government friendly witness Robert Taylor as the British turncoat and sleazy communist spy Maj. Michael Curragh. Who in order to show his loyalty to the great "Cause and Movement" is ordered to murder his gorgeous young wife Melinda, Elizabeth Taylor. Who caught on to his spying and is a threat not only to Michael but to the Communist cell in London that he's a member of. Melinda at first going completely banana's over the handsome and dashing Major Michael after meeting him at a big social gathering in which no man there even bothered to ask her or a dance! they must have been either blind or crazy or both! Michael and Melinda hit it off right away and before you know it their married and living happily after after or so we, or they, thought. Melinda quickly caught on to Michael, and his secret life, but at first she thought that he was cheating with another woman behind her back. When Melinda took some bills from his pocket, to pay for a gift that she bought for him, she found a note going to his handler, Commie London spy chief Radek (Karel Stepanek), about the latest secret military strategy report of the UK & UK. Michaels communist handlers ware already ticked off at Michael for marrying Melinda without telling them about it, as well as not inviting them to the marriage ceremony. Now with her snooping around into his business with them he was given a direct order to do her in once in for all and leave no fingerprints of himself or his involvement with them behind. Michael later tries to shoot and kill Melinda at a duck hunt when he took her to his Aunt Jessica's, Marjorie Fielding, place out in the country but chickened out and just shot over her head. Or was it, like he explained to his bosses, after his hunting dog distracted him only knocking Melinda out. Were told by Michael that his dedication to the communist movement goes back to his days as a youth in Ireland where he fell under the spell of the ideas of Marx & Engles. As well as Michael's dreams of being a part of the greatest social experiment in the history of the world! Yet just one look at the beautiful Melinda showed him just how much BS that great revelation in human evolution, on his part, was. Now Michael got lost in the fog of his own muddled half-baked and self-delusional thoughts.It later turned out that it wasn't necessary for Melinda to turn Michael in to the authorities since the British M15 already knew about his communist activities long before he even met her. All this became moot with Michael seeing himself deserted by Melinda, as well as the local commie spy cell, beat them to the punch with a self-inflicted gun-shot wound to his head. It was hard to believe that Elizabeth Taylor was still in her teens, she was 17 at the time, when she made "Conspirator" back in 1949. She not only was beautiful beyond words but also a far more mature young woman then her age actually indicated.

The film demonstrates that her acting was fresher, more spontaneous, and more compelling…"Conspirator" was designed to guide Liz from young girl to woman in much the same way that "Cynthia" moved her from child to young girl… As the movie opens, she's the young American in London, worrying over being asked for a dance at a ball, and preoccupied with shopping sprees…Like many of the parts she's played, her young lady here is a woman with nothing on her mind… Superficial, devil-may-care, Liz is yet a beguiling flirt; there's a particularly charming scene early in the film in which she chatters foolishly and at length in order to make less her fears of the dark…The plot of the movie is to take her from frivolous girl to bruised but knowing young woman, and the change is effected, of course, by her relations with an attractive man…After a whirlwind courtship, she marries a handsome British army major who's the answer to her schoolgirl notions of romance… With typical Taylor luck, her husband turns out to be a spy for the Russians… When she finally discovers his double life, she decides to turn him in… Her scene of momentous moral decision is unique: it's the only time in her career that romance is mixed with politics…In its own simplistic way, "Conspirator" is a message movie (with excellent use of London's streets and parks…), and Liz, for a change, is a reasonable person, expressing dismay at her husband's duplicity and urging him to the greater rewards of loyalty to country… Liz is a patriot; as she says, she doesn't know much about politics, but, instinctively, she knows right from wrong and what her husband is doing is wrong…As storm warning or political statement, "Conspirator" was Fifties naive… It was also, of course, Hollywood's response to the early Fifties Communist scare… The film was a firm warning that Communist sympathizers will end unhappily

Conspirator gives us a chance to see Robert Taylor, once again as the villain. We almost hope that he is not what he seems to be. If not for the moviegoer but for Elizabeth Taylor, who is so in love with him that she is breathless. When she first meets Michael (Taylor) she is stunned by his looks, and when they dance, she falls hopelessly in love with him. They go to the country and the first time we realize there is something not right with Michael. It is on the rabbit hunt with his niece and nephew. One of the rabbits is caught in the trap, hurt, and Melinda asks Michael to help and he says "it is only a rabbit". That evening she rejects him, as he tells her he is desperately in love with her. She forgives him and they marry. Everything seems idyllic until strange postcards, blank and unsigned begin to show up in the mail. There are mysterious trips, sullen leavings, and when she tries to tease him, he explodes. She discovers the notes with secrets written on them, and is devastated. He promises to stop, but never does, and the Party is not happy with his marriage. They want him to kill her, but he in love, and hesitates. He does try on a hunting trip, but Melinda stumbles and the gun misfires. Instead in the end, when he knows that Melinda will give him up to the authorities, he kills himself. Robert Taylor gave Elizabeth Taylor her first grown up screen kiss. He was so smitten with her beauty that he had to be filmed from the waist up in many scenes because he could not control his amorous feelings. He was always an underrated actor, and this film proves it. Another film would be "Undercurrent" with Kathryn Hepburn. Evil again, and so good.