By Richard Harland Smith
Chubasco
Brief Synopsis
A young delinquent tries to redeem himself by working on a tuna boat.
Cast & Crew
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Allen H. Miner
Director
Richard Egan
Sebastian
Christopher Jones
Chubasco
Susan Strasberg
Bunny
Ann Sothern
Angela
Simon Oakland
Laurindo
Film Details
Genre
Drama
Release Date
Jan
1968
Premiere Information
Los Angeles opening: 5 Jun 1968
Production Company
Warner Bros.--Seven Arts, Inc.
Country
United States
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 39m
Sound
Mono
Color
Color (Technicolor)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
2.35 : 1
Synopsis
Police arrest Chubasco, a wild 20-year-old, and his girl friend Bunny when a gang of motorcyclists ride through a California beach party. Bunny is bailed out by her irate father, Sebastian, and the sympathetic judge prevails upon executive Nick Kassel to find work for Chubasco aboard one of his tuna boats. Despite his rebellious attitude, Chubasco wins the approval of Captain Laurindo. Later, Chubasco goes to work for an elderly skipper, Benito, who takes a paternal interest in him and helps him to arrange an elopement with Bunny. The wedding, which takes place in a brothel owned by Benito's friend Angela, is a raucous affair which ends sadly when Benito suffers a fatal heart attack. Chubasco ships out on another tuna boat and leaves Bunny in the care of Angela. Although Chubasco's new skipper turns out to be Bunny's father, the two men get along well enough until Sebastian learns that Chubasco has married Bunny. Unwilling to accept the young man, he attacks Chubasco but is himself knocked overboard during the fight. Despite Chubasco's saving his life, Sebastian vows to put him ashore at the next port. When Chubasco accidentally falls over the side, Sebastian rescues him. The two men are united by the incident, and when their ship reaches port, Sebastian smiles as Chubasco embraces Bunny.
Director
Allen H. Miner
Director
Cast
Richard Egan
Sebastian
Christopher Jones
Chubasco
Susan Strasberg
Bunny
Ann Sothern
Angela
Simon Oakland
Laurindo
Audrey Totter
Theresa
Preston Foster
Nick
Peter Whitney
Matt
Edward Binns
Judge North
Joe De Santis
Benito
Norman Alden
Frenchy
Stewart Moss
Les
Ron Rich
Juno
Milton Frome
Police sergeant
Toni Gerri
Aunt Mary
Crew
Gordon Bau
Makeup Supervisor
Leonard Bukey
Grip
Robert Burks
Director Photographer (see note)
Charles Caramelli
Loc Manager
William Conrad
Composer
William Conrad
Executive Producer
Elmer Faubion
Assistant Camera
Fred Gammon
Assistant Director
Ben Goldman
Prop
Howard Hollander
Art Director
John W. Holmes
Film Editor
Paul Ivano
Director of Photography
Gordon Jenkins
Composer
Lew Jennings
Director of Photography
Stanley Jones
Sound
William L. Kuehl
Set Decoration
William Lava
Composer
William Lava
Music
Gary Liddiard
Makeup
James Lydon
Executive Assistant prod
Jules Miliman
Script Supervisor
Allen H. Miner
Screenwriter
Rick Miner
Dial Supervisor
John Monte
Stills
Harold Noyes
Grip
Jean Burt Reilly
Supervisor hairstylist
Sherry Shourds
Unit Manager
William Smith
Costumes
Leroy Thompson
Electrician
Roger Williams
Camera Operator
Film Details
Genre
Drama
Release Date
Jan
1968
Premiere Information
Los Angeles opening: 5 Jun 1968
Production Company
Warner Bros.--Seven Arts, Inc.
Country
United States
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 39m
Sound
Mono
Color
Color (Technicolor)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
2.35 : 1
Articles
Chubasco -
Between Dick & Liz and Jack & Angelica, Christopher Jones and Susan Strasberg became for a brief interlude Hollywood's premiere power couple, beautiful creatures whose boundless charisma and seemingly limitless prospects were the envy of the Sunset Strip. The daughter of Actor's Studio co-founder Lee Strasberg, Susan Strasberg had been nominated for a Tony award at age 18 and was known abroad as "La Strasberg;" Jones was a product of Memphis' Boys Town, a motherless loner who found a measure of structure and consistency in acting and was being touted as the next James Dean. Married in 1965, the couple's only feature film pairing was in the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts production Chubasco (1968), the title taken from the Spanish word for the violent storms that rock Mexico's Pacific coast. Playing to his strengths, Jones stars as a rootless drifter whose love for a port town girl (Strasberg had given birth to the couple's only child, a daughter, in 1966) angers her father (Richard Egan), a fishing boat captain. Like an Elvis vehicle played without songs, Chubasco was as dramatic off-screen as on, with the stormy marriage of Jones and Strasberg ending in divorce not long after production wrapped in late 1967. (Jones rebounded with an affair with actress Sharon Tate that ended with her August 1969 murder.) Chubasco proved an effective launching pad for Jones' career (though he quit Hollywood in 1970 after making Ryan's Daughter for David Lean), and was the last film of veteran Hollywood actor Preston Foster.
By Richard Harland Smith
By Richard Harland Smith
Chubasco -
Between Dick & Liz and Jack & Angelica, Christopher Jones and Susan Strasberg became for a brief interlude Hollywood's premiere power couple, beautiful creatures whose boundless charisma and seemingly limitless prospects were the envy of the Sunset Strip. The daughter of Actor's Studio co-founder Lee Strasberg, Susan Strasberg had been nominated for a Tony award at age 18 and was known abroad as "La Strasberg;" Jones was a product of Memphis' Boys Town, a motherless loner who found a measure of structure and consistency in acting and was being touted as the next James Dean. Married in 1965, the couple's only feature film pairing was in the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts production Chubasco (1968), the title taken from the Spanish word for the violent storms that rock Mexico's Pacific coast. Playing to his strengths, Jones stars as a rootless drifter whose love for a port town girl (Strasberg had given birth to the couple's only child, a daughter, in 1966) angers her father (Richard Egan), a fishing boat captain. Like an Elvis vehicle played without songs, Chubasco was as dramatic off-screen as on, with the stormy marriage of Jones and Strasberg ending in divorce not long after production wrapped in late 1967. (Jones rebounded with an affair with actress Sharon Tate that ended with her August 1969 murder.) Chubasco proved an effective launching pad for Jones' career (though he quit Hollywood in 1970 after making Ryan's Daughter for David Lean), and was the last film of veteran Hollywood actor Preston Foster.
By Richard Harland Smith
Chubasco
Chubasco
A young delinquent tries to redeem himself by working on a tuna boat.
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Location scenes filmed in San Diego, California. Burks was replaced as photographer early in production.
