Rent Burn! (1969)

An outstanding role - Burn! review by PD

Marlon Brando in one of his most outstanding roles. The music is unmemorable, but the ethnic and political message is strong. An important role in Marlon's canon of work.

Freedom, Sort Of - Burn! review by griggs

Brando plays a British agent dispatched to a Portuguese colony in the Caribbean, sent to whip up a slave revolt — officially for the Crown, unofficially for the sugar money. Once it works, he sticks around to help prop up a puppet government, because nothing says freedom like trading one set of masters for another. The character's loosely modelled on William Walker, the American mercenary who once tried to crown himself president of Nicaragua (also the subject of Alex Cox's Walker), though the film never quite tells you what's driving him — greed, vanity, boredom, pick one — and the middle stretch suffers because of it. Pontecorvo's clearly more interested in the crowd than the man at the centre of it, and that's where the film comes alive.

Brando's magnetic throughout, and — surprise — the English accent actually holds up. Call it one of his most underrated turns from the fallow stretch before The Godfather.

Then there's the ending. Pontecorvo drops you right into the crowd, same trick as Algiers, only tighter and nastier, landing exactly when the film needs a jolt. Goes out with a bang. It's just a shame the rest doesn't always match its nerve.

Filibusterer - Burn! review by NO

Strange film .Semi documentary historical.Rather disjointed to start-dialogue patchy.No women or love interest whatsoever.Unknown actors

apart from Brando who rated it one of his best pe rformancies.Changed my mind -will give it only 2 stars.Music by Morricone unmemorable.