Cineaste, January 1st, 1993
Although Gillo Pontecorvo's Burn! (1969) shares many of the same elements as his landmark political film, The Battle of Algiers (1966)-the dramatization of an anticolonialist struggle in the Third World, a nonprofessional actor in one of the lead roles, a politically sophisticated screenplay by the late Franco Solinas, a memorable musical score by Ennio Morricone - it unfortunately doesn't come anywhere near duplicating the success of the earlier film.
Set in 1845 on the fictitious Caribbean island of Queimada, Burn! stars Marlon Brando as Sir William Walker, a British government agent sent...
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