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23 July 1967 (USA) moreTagline:
Of his kind Chuka's the best there is. At fighting. At loving. And when it had to be - at killing!Plot:
While Indians besiege a U.S. Army fort in 1876, residents of the fort a gunfighter, a stagecoach driver, two Mexican women, and a motley company of soldiers try to come to terms with their pasts. | add synopsisUser Comments:
An Historical Landmark in Awfulness---Featuring a Stellar Cast moreCast
(Credited cast)| Rod Taylor | ... | Chuka | |
| Ernest Borgnine | ... | Sgt. Otto Hahnsbach | |
| John Mills | ... | Colonel Stuart Valois | |
| Luciana Paluzzi | ... | Veronica Kleitz | |
| James Whitmore | ... | Lou Trent | |
| Victoria Vetri | ... | Helena Chavez (as Angela Dorian) | |
| Louis Hayward | ... | Major Benson | |
| Michael Cole | ... | Spivey | |
| Hugh Reilly | ... | Captain Carrol | |
| Barry O'Hara | ... | Slim | |
| Joseph Sirola | ... | Baldwin | |
| Marco López | ... | Hanu (as Marco Antonio) | |
| Gerald York | ... | Lieutenant Daly | |
| Herlinda Del Carmen | ... | Indian Girl | |
| Lucky Carson | ... | Stage Driver |
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Col. Stuart Valois: I've discovered, Mr. Chuka, that to a savage kindness means weakness. He'll despise you for it. The moment you turn your back, he'll put a knife in it. I offer you that piece of intelligence. It might save your life someday.Chuka: Colonel, they're awful hungry out there. I think they're mean. And unless you give them food or the rifles to hunt their own, they're gonna come in here and *take* it. That's a little piece of intelligence that might save *your* life sometime.
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This may be one of the strangest A-List movies ever made. It has a superb international cast (U.S., Great Britain, Australia, Italy), but the story is unbearably childish, intolerably boring, and riddled with errors and plot missteps that defy belief. Just a very few: no cashiered foreign officer could possibly get a commission in the U.S. Army, much less rise to the rank of Colonel; no Colonel wears major's leaves as his rank insignia; no Colonel ever commanded a fort consisting of what appears to be no more than a squad of soldiers (not to mention that no frontier fort was ever held by a mere squad); no Americans served in the British Army's Sudan Campaign; Chuka NEVER misses his shots at the rapidly moving Indians, regardless the range and the fact that, rather than aiming, he lunges, throws out, his pistol when firing, which absolutely GUARANTEES a miss; poor Louis Hayward (at the end of his career) agrees to lead a mutiny, which no officer in the U.S. Armed Forces has ever done; there was no concept, ever, of a fort to which were banished incompetent, criminal officers and cast-off, second-rate men (where do they GET ideas like that?)---this could go on forever. Given the idiocies of the plot and parade of one moronic scene after another (e.g., the Commanding Officer going around the dinner table and grievously insulting every single officer in his command), it must be admitted that the highly professional cast did its very best with the hopeless script (written by someone with no knowledge of the military or the American West)---but that was like trying to breathe life into the first 500 pages of the Manhattan telephone directory. Years from now this film---given its stellar cast---will be pondered upon as one of the great mysteries in Hollywood production and film-making.