AKA Queimada. The Mercenary.
"If a man gives you freedom, it is not freedom. Freedom is something you take for yourself."
Sir William Walker (Marlon Brando) is a political agitator sent by the British government to a Portugeuse island to ferment a revolution. This Walker does with a calculated and dispassionate eye, leaving the island open for the British to move in on. Job done Walker leaves...Ten years later Walker is called back by the British. This time to destroy the very people he empowered previously, and being British he sees no contradiction. It is all just part of the game.
An aligory about colonial power and its inherent belief in the expendability of all concerned for profit and or political gain. Based on a Spanish island, where they burnt out the entire population and replaced them with slaves. This is politics with a large P, from the director who gave us The Battle of Algiers.
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