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...fortuitous one. Gillio Pontecorvo made Burn! in 1970, five years after making Battle of Algiers, and although this latter fictional account of 19th century colonialism is a different sort of film than the realistic 1965 classic, it exhibits signs of the same intelligence and the same cinemagraphic beauty. Marlon Brando stars as an Englishman who inspires revolution in a Carribean Portuguese colony in order to open up the island to British trade. The film is hardly doctrinaire, but it does take a few clean and effective swipes at capitalist-based liberals. This isn't great movie...
...been pretty much ignored and underrated since it was made over 15 years ago, but it shows signs of Penn's later brilliance and is probably better than some of his more popular work. The cast for this laconic look at class conflict in the rural South includes Marlon Brando--playing the archetypal Southern sheriff--and young versions of Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. It's playing with G-Men, a film in which Jimmy Cagney switches from hood to FBI agent. Well, out of the pan and into the fire...
...McKenna's portrayal remains the yardstick for this part, as for Shaw's Saint Joan and others.) The plausibility of confusion between Viola-Cesario and Sebastian is helped here through Donald Warfield's soft, rather womanly portrayal of the brother (a role once played by a 19-year-old Marlon Brando...
John Sirica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marlon Brando...
Burn. Why did this film bomb so miserably when it came out in 1970? Whatever picture companies and elements of the people are responsible for this sure acted like terminal morons. Made by Gillo Pontecorvo, who created Battle of Algiers. Starring Marlon Brando as a British secret agent. Filmed in color in the Caribbean with hundreds of extras. About Dutch (or Portugese--can't remember) colonialism and revolt in the 19th century. And very, very fine...