Burn! (1969)

Cast

Marlon Brando
as Sir William Walker

Get more information about Burn! (1969) on IMDb

Genres & Description

Action Drama

7.4 / 10

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.

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Comments on this trailer
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Tell It to My Heart

That's why you should not marry. - @Saturday, December 30, 2017 7:32 PM

garrison968

The more I watch this movie, the better it gets. This meeting is extremely well done, the dialogue, the concept, the direction and the acting. Brando does a really nice job underplaying a man who is really a mercenary fanatic. Those were the days, when a guy could make Battle of Algiers and then this picture. - @Friday, August 7, 2015 3:03 AM

yallow rosa

Marlon goes strait to the point ... - @Saturday, April 5, 2014 11:55 PM

Dehzee

excatly - @Tuesday, November 5, 2013 7:28 AM

Peter Fuentes

And it has worked brillantly here in Amerca, well played old boy! - @Sunday, January 27, 2013 10:08 AM

xxCasanova98xx

Brando himself said he was the most "proud" of his work in this film. Perhaps for the political and moral questions the film raises? - @Sunday, December 16, 2012 12:44 AM

garrison968

One of the best scenes in the movie. This is almost as good as Battle of Algiers. - @Sunday, July 22, 2012 7:13 PM

Clay3613

Wow, this movie is fucking inaccurate...and people give Walker shit? - @Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:53 PM

Dehzee

I hope the wall st occupiers check this before proceeding... - @Thursday, October 6, 2011 4:15 AM

John Leopold

@selfidentity1 I especially enjoy his accent in Mutiny on the Bounty. Desiree isn't ban either. - @Friday, August 12, 2011 12:58 AM

bolder2009

Powerful movie. Powerful performance by Brando. - @Sunday, April 3, 2011 9:27 PM

Dehzee

@selfidentity1 The metaphor is to teach you the truth behind revolutions and how we think we are free, but we are not. Instead of being slaves on a plantation and having rent and food paid for, we must pay our own expenses and we are debt slaves through taxes. It is cheaper that way for slave owners, and slaves don't rebel when they think they are free. - @Monday, January 31, 2011 3:30 AM

Badgerthegreat

@MrBezubezu The filmmakers were originally going to make the colonists Spanish, but the Spanish government complained, so they changed it to Portuguese, even though they didn't actually change the language. - @Monday, November 15, 2010 9:33 PM

ShoelaceHearts

@selfidentity1 But it's true. - @Friday, October 8, 2010 2:49 PM

oswaldo silva

2:08 perfect view! ^_^ - @Friday, July 23, 2010 4:58 PM

Robertino Rossino

you quite wrong - @Sunday, January 17, 2010 4:04 PM

Christopher John Blue

Brilliant ! as usual - @Friday, October 16, 2009 11:47 PM

David Covo

A great Classic. Cartagena de Indias is a fascinating location with such wonderful history and contrasts. This film involved the whole city in 1968 and during this year Brando and most of the crew lived in this magical city where they left incredible stories behind, like the story of Evaristo Marquez a great talent found by Pontecorvo and one of those curious episodes that conform the Colombian film history. - @Thursday, March 19, 2009 4:27 AM

David Covo

La historia del palenquero Evaristo Marquez, la coestrella de Marlon Brando es increible y uno de tantos pasajes insolitos del cine en Colombia. Cartagena de Indias es un escenario cinematografico exquisito a la talla de los mejores a nivel mundial. Un gran clasico que vale la pena ver. - @Thursday, March 19, 2009 4:17 AM

Luixiao

No hay que ser tan estupido,este NO es un tema de socialismo,es como las potencias han usado este mecanismo para dividir a la gente de cada pais para luego dominarlo, lo hicieron la antigua Roma en cada provincia conquistada,los rusos sovieticos en europa oriental,USA en Irak. - @Sunday, April 13, 2008 5:13 PM

Xenu

It would seem highly unlikely considering that Pontecorvo's principal protagonists were either black, Arab or Jewish, depending on the film. I do know Brando and Pontecorvo both hated working with each other although after the film was released Brando contacted Pontecorvo in order to work together again. Pontecorvo reminded him of how awful their experience together had been in "Burn!" I'll check out the autobiography. - @Thursday, March 13, 2008 7:15 PM

wheatbread87

this is a movie all black people should see - @Saturday, March 8, 2008 4:01 PM

gus 1816

viva el socialismo internacionalista!! te felicito por tu material, si sabes castellano creo que te va a gustar lo mio. Un abrazo militante desde la Argentina - @Saturday, October 27, 2007 12:55 AM

Xenu

One of the greatest movies I've ever seen. From the director of "The Battle of Algiers." I think Brando may have referred to this as his greatest film. It's a masterpiece. "Burn!" - @Sunday, September 9, 2007 6:43 PM