Queimada!, 1969
QUEIMADA!/BURN!, 1969 Aside from Elia Kazan and Bernardo Bertolucci, the best director I ever worked with was Gillo Pontecorvo, even though we nearly killed each other. He directed me in a 1968 film that practically no one saw...I think I did the best acting I've ever done in that picture, but few people came to see it..... Gillo had made a film I liked, The Battle Of Algiers, and was one of the few great filmmakers I knew...Making that movie was wild. Everybody smoked a strong variety of marijuana called Colombian Red, and the crew was stoned most of the time... It was a movie about slavery and slave rebellion...Jesus, they couldn't flush it away fast enough. I couldn't believe it, about an interesting time well told...
Queimada!, 1969

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Queimada!, 1969
A collection of material relating to Queimada!, including:
- a first draft script, 175pp. of mimeographed tyepscript, with brown paper covers, the first page annotated in an unknown hand Quemada (First Draft), Telephone Gillo Pontecorvo 837157, Franco Solinas 6460739, the last page annotated in blue felt pen in Brando's hand with his thoughts on the script: To Africa to do what? Question of partially educated...;
- two 2nd Version scripts with cream paper covers, both 269pp. of mimeographed typescript;
- two later scripts with pink paper covers, both 263pp. of mimeographed typescript;
- two pages of typescript notes on the script titled Marlon - Notes - Quemada;
- approximately 75 black and white photographs, some head and shoulders portraits of Brando, some of Brando with other members of cast and crew relaxing between filming, all -- 8x10in. (20.3x25.4cm.);
- a typescript letter, signed, from Mario Del Papa, dated 17 March, 1969, on P.E.A. headed stationery, regarding holidays during the shooting of the film, 1p.;
- two typescript letters, signed, from Jennifer Oppo, dated 8 August, 1969, on Quemada headed stationery, regarding still photographs of Brando taken during the filming, 2pp.;
- a large quantity of call sheets, various dates November 1969 - December, 1969; and related material (a lot)

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The film's original title Quemada [Spanish for 'burnt'] was changed after the Spanish government objected to the script's apparently anti-Spanish bias. Gillo Pontecorvo changed the setting to a Portugese island and the title became Queimada! [Portugese for 'burnt'].

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