Burn!

Even at the height of his stardom, Marlon Brando was prepared to take chances by accepting challenging roles. In this attack on colonial manipulation - a period swashbuckler with attitude - he plays a cynical British secret agent who ignites a Caribbean island revolution against the ruling Portuguese, who are using slave labour on a sugar-cane plantation. It's 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.