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    Burn (1970)

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    Even at the height of his stardom, Marlon Brando was prepared to take chances by accepting challenging roles.

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    Here, he plays Sir William Walker, a manipulative English secret agent and adventurer who is sent by his government to the Portuguese island of Quiemada in the Caribbean early in the 19th century.

    His mission is to wreck the sugar trade monopoly, a duty that results in open warfare.

    This attack on colonial manipulation is clumsily handled at times by Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo, who made the remarkable documentary-style epic The Battle of Algiers, but it still has scenes of enormous visual power, and Brando is magnificent.

    Although set in the Caribbean, the film was actually made in Italy.

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    Sir William Walker
    Marlon Brando
    Jose Dolores
    Evaristo Marquez
    Teddy Sanchez
    Renato Salvatori
    Shelton
    Norman Hill
    General Prada
    Tom Lyons
    Guarina
    Wanani
    Juanito
    Joseph Persuad
    Henry
    Giampiero Albertini

    Director
    Gillo Pontecorvo

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