***SPOILERS*** Somewhat boring and overdone Casablanca-like war drama with the stunningly beautiful, considered to be the most beautiful woman in all the world at the time, Hedy Lamarr as anti-Nazi freedom fighter and former Dachau concentration camp survivor Irene Von Mohr. Don't let Irene's last name fool you she's actually French who's married to German Diplomat Hugo Von Mohr, Victor Franken, who got her out of Dachau at the risk of his own neck.
Getting involved, almost by accident, with fellow anti-Nazi freedom fighter Vincent Van Der Lyn, Paul Henreid, who's known in anti-Nazi freedom fighting circles as the a**-kicking "Flying Dutchman" Irene, in at first not knowing who he is, thinks that he's some kind of Nazi spy working for chief Nazi honcho in natural Lisbon Portugal Dr. Schmitt, Steven Geray. Vincent is on the run from his home in Nazi occupied Holland after almost single-handedly, as we see in the start of the film, wiping out the entire German Army garrison stationed there! Slipping into Portugal Vincent wants to go legit in fighting the Nazis as a member of the free Dutch Air Force instead of being a guerrilla fighter, who's not protected by the Geneva Convention, by getting to England where the Free Dutch Air Force originates from.
The film "The Conspirator's" moves at a snails pace with Vincent getting in and out trouble, and jail, until the last ten minutes or so when the action really starts to pick up. It's then at a swanky Lisbon Casino that it's revealed who's the fink, or traitor, who set poor Vincent up in the murder of fellow anti-Nazi freedom fighter Jennings, Monte Blue, that he was arrested and put behind bars for. Even though the identity of the traitor was not that hard to figure out it was about the most exciting scene in the somewhat very uninteresting, with the exception of Miss. Lamarr, film.
P.S Besides Paul Henreid there's also Casablanca cast members Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre as anti-Nazi freedom fighters Ricardo Quintanilla and Jan Bernazsky to round out the the films Casablanca-like cast. There's also Eduardo Ciannelli as Portuguese Army Colonel Almeida who's out to get Vincent, for violating Portuguese immigration laws, before he slips out of the country on his way to the UK. It was Ciannelli who was to play some 15 years later the lovable Greenwich Village jazz bar and nightclub owner Waldo in the TV series "Johnny Staccato".
Getting involved, almost by accident, with fellow anti-Nazi freedom fighter Vincent Van Der Lyn, Paul Henreid, who's known in anti-Nazi freedom fighting circles as the a**-kicking "Flying Dutchman" Irene, in at first not knowing who he is, thinks that he's some kind of Nazi spy working for chief Nazi honcho in natural Lisbon Portugal Dr. Schmitt, Steven Geray. Vincent is on the run from his home in Nazi occupied Holland after almost single-handedly, as we see in the start of the film, wiping out the entire German Army garrison stationed there! Slipping into Portugal Vincent wants to go legit in fighting the Nazis as a member of the free Dutch Air Force instead of being a guerrilla fighter, who's not protected by the Geneva Convention, by getting to England where the Free Dutch Air Force originates from.
The film "The Conspirator's" moves at a snails pace with Vincent getting in and out trouble, and jail, until the last ten minutes or so when the action really starts to pick up. It's then at a swanky Lisbon Casino that it's revealed who's the fink, or traitor, who set poor Vincent up in the murder of fellow anti-Nazi freedom fighter Jennings, Monte Blue, that he was arrested and put behind bars for. Even though the identity of the traitor was not that hard to figure out it was about the most exciting scene in the somewhat very uninteresting, with the exception of Miss. Lamarr, film.
P.S Besides Paul Henreid there's also Casablanca cast members Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre as anti-Nazi freedom fighters Ricardo Quintanilla and Jan Bernazsky to round out the the films Casablanca-like cast. There's also Eduardo Ciannelli as Portuguese Army Colonel Almeida who's out to get Vincent, for violating Portuguese immigration laws, before he slips out of the country on his way to the UK. It was Ciannelli who was to play some 15 years later the lovable Greenwich Village jazz bar and nightclub owner Waldo in the TV series "Johnny Staccato".