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Chuka

  • 19671967
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 45m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
965
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POPULARITY
15,611
29,952
Ernest Borgnine and Rod Taylor in Chuka (1967)
Western
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... Read allWhile 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.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.
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
965
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
15,611
29,952
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    • Director
      • Gordon Douglas
    • Writer
      • Richard Jessup(novel)
    • Stars
      • Rod Taylor
      • Ernest Borgnine
      • John Mills
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Gordon Douglas
    • Writer
      • Richard Jessup(novel)
    • Stars
      • Rod Taylor
      • Ernest Borgnine
      • John Mills
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    • 25User reviews
    • 12Critic reviews
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    Rod Taylor and Luciana Paluzzi in Chuka (1967)
    Luciana Paluzzi in Chuka (1967)
    Luciana Paluzzi in Chuka (1967)
    Ernest Borgnine and Rod Taylor in Chuka (1967)
    Ernest Borgnine, Rod Taylor, Herlinda Del Carmen, and Louis Hayward in Chuka (1967)
    Rod Taylor in Chuka (1967)
    Rod Taylor, John Mills, and Luciana Paluzzi in Chuka (1967)
    Rod Taylor and Victoria Vetri in Chuka (1967)

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    Rod Taylor
    Rod Taylor
    • Chuka
    Ernest Borgnine
    Ernest Borgnine
    • Sgt. Otto Hahnsbach
    John Mills
    John Mills
    • Col. Stuart Valois
    Luciana Paluzzi
    Luciana Paluzzi
    • Señora Veronica Kleitz
    James Whitmore
    James Whitmore
    • Lou Trent
    Victoria Vetri
    Victoria Vetri
    • Señorita Helena Chavez
    • (as Angela Dorian)
    Louis Hayward
    Louis Hayward
    • Maj. Benson
    Michael Cole
    Michael Cole
    • Spivey
    Hugh Reilly
    • Capt. Carrol
    Barry O'Hara
    • Slim - Cook
    Joseph Sirola
    Joseph Sirola
    • Jake Baldwin
    Marco Lopez
    • Hanu
    • (as Marco Antonio)
    Gerald York
    • Lt. Daly
    Herlinda Del Carmen
    • Indian Girl
    Lucky Carson
    • Stage Driver
    George American Horse
    • Indian
    • (uncredited)
    Loren Brown
    • Trooper
    • (uncredited)
    Forest Burns
    Forest Burns
    • Trooper
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Gordon Douglas
    • Writer
      • Richard Jessup(novel) (screenplay)
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Goofs
      For a story that occurs in 1876, there is a problem when the main characters arrive at the fort. There is a soldier being whipped for desertion. Whipping or flogging had been banned by the U.S. Army as of 5 August 1861.
    • Quotes

      Trent: Wake me up when it's time to die.

      Chuka: Are you scared of dyin', Lou?

      Trent: Not particularly. It just comes an inconvenient time.

    User reviews25

    Review
    Top review
    6/10
    Chucking It All Away
    This is a strange western that I think owes some inspiration from John Ford's classic Cheyenne Autumn. Like the Ford movie it's concerning starving Indians on the reservation, in this case Arapahoe who resolve not to starve any longer.

    Especially when post commander John Mills has plenty of army supplies in his fort and won't feed the Arapahoe or give them guns to hunt. His fort is a last chance outpost where apparently the army sends all its misfits from the commander on down. Holding some kind of discipline together is Sergeant Ernest Borgnine.

    Into the mix rides gunfighter Rod Taylor in the title role together with Luciana Paluzzi and her niece Victoria Vetri. Paluzzi and Taylor had a little something something going back in the day.

    In any event the Arapahoes have them boxed in with a massacre impending. Our sympathies are completely with the Indians on this one. This post contains some of the worst specimens of human being ever gathered together in one spot. Mills is a frightening spectacle with Borgnine enforcing his edicts on an unruly post. Of course there's a reason he's a drunken shell of a man which we learn near the end of the film.

    Chuka misses being a classic because of the pedestrian direction it got from Gordon Douglas. Someone like Delmar Daves or John Huston could have made it a classic. The cast is a good one.

    John Ford would never have directed it though, no way he would have portrayed his beloved United States Cavalry like this.
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    • Sep 18, 2008

    Details

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    • Release date
      • July 23, 1967 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Cuka
    • Filming locations
      • Lake Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • New Art Film Company
      • Rodlor
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 45 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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