Chuka (1967)

Director:

Gordon Douglas

Writers:

Richard Jessup (novel)
Richard Jessup (screenplay)

Release Date:

23 July 1967 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Tagline:

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. |

Plot Keywords:

Fort | Calvary | Whipping | Punishment | Bare Chested Male

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

Also Known As:

Chuka: The Gunfighter

Runtime:

105 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Pathécolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Singapore:PG | West Germany:16 (nf) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Company:

New Art Film Company

Quotes:

Col. Stuart Valois: How many men have you killed?
Chuka: I stopped counting at sixteen.
Col. Stuart Valois: Were they fair fights? Mr. Chuka! Where they fair fights?
Chuka: Fifteen were fair.
Col. Stuart Valois: And what is fair to you, Mr. Chuka
Chuka: They were facing me. They had a chance at me.
Col. Stuart Valois: And the sixteenth?
Chuka: I shot him in the back of the head. But like the doctor here, I can't prove that he stuck a knife in me and was stealing my horse.

Doesn't it want to make you up chuka

Sorry i could not resist the headline.This Western must have been made on the very cheap because everything seems to be made of balsa wood.Rod Taylor seems to have a six shooter which is as accurate as a snipers rifle and which fires 12 shots for every 6 rounds loaded.John Mills has a look which says"this will pay next years tax bill".What about poor Louis Hayward,i didn't even recognise him.It is little wonder that Westerns were on their way out with efforts like this.It has to be another in the pantheon of those films that are so bad that they are actually very enjoyable.So if it comes your way and you want a good laugh then watch this film