Chuka

1967

Action / Western

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 23% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 23% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 1206 1.2K

based on novel or book fort winter native american fistfight romance

Plot summary

A group under siege at an Army fort grapple with painful memories.

Director

Gordon Douglas Photo
Gordon Douglas

Top cast

Ernest Borgnine Photo
Ernest Borgnine as Sgt. Otto Hahnsbach
Marco López Photo
Marco López as Hanu
Rod Taylor Photo
Rod Taylor as Chuka
Luciana Paluzzi Photo
Luciana Paluzzi as Señora Veronica Kleitz
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1 hr 44 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by thinker1691 7 / 10

" He's an Arapaho Dog soldier! You could tear his heart out, he'd tell you nothing "

Among the films of Rod Taylor, one is hard pressed to single any which stand out as wrong for him. This particular film called " Chuka " is right up his alley. The rugged, good looking rough and tumble action hero is right at home in a run down Army post surrounded by frigid miles of empty winter desert. The year is 1876, the place Fort Clandenen, home to an odd collection of misfit soldiers, deserters and questionable officers. The post is commanded by an aging Ex-British Colonel called Stuart Valois. Although disliked by his small command, only one has respect for him. That man is professional soldier Sgt. Otto Kahnsbach. (Ernest Borgnine) Into the shabby excuse of an outpost, looking for a bed is an experienced gunfighter called Chuka. (Rod Taylor) Accompanying him is the overland stage with two Beautiful Spanish women. Senora Veronica Kleitz (Luciana Paluzzi) and (Angela Dorian). With a gathering and ever encircling force of Arapahoes, led by Hanu ( Marco Lopez) a young warrior Chief, his people, ill fed and starving, need the supplies of the fort. The action in the movie is convincing as are the supporting cast. Seasoned actors James Whitmore who plays Lou Trent, the Chief scout, Louis Hayward and Lucky Carson all give fine performances. Despite the interesting stories of the characters, it is Rod Taylor who warrants most of the attention on the screen. Although lacking in cinematic promotion, this story earns the status of Classic western and is therefore recommended viewing. ****
Reviewed by bkoganbing 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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