Chuka
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Gordon Douglas
Rod Taylor
Ernest Borgnine
John Mills
Luciana Paluzzi
James Whitmore
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
While on the trail, a gunfighter known as Chuka gives some of his food to Hanu, chief of a tribe of starving Arapahoe Indians. A short time later, they come upon a disabled stagecoach, and Hanu repays his debt to Chuka by sparing the lives of the passengers, including Veronica, a widowed Mexican aristocrat with whom Chuka had been in love: Veronica was forced to reject him because of his lowly status. Chuka leads the stranded travelers to a nearby fort garrisoned by an undisciplined company of misfits and commanded by Colonel Valois, a martinet tortured by the memory that, while he was a British officer in India, his entire regiment had been slaughtered while he was in a drunken stupor. When the Arapahoes surround the fort and capture a scouting party, Chuka rescues Trent, the sole survivor of the party, and returns to warn Valois that an Indian attack is imminent and to advise him to take the offensive against the Indians. Valois scorns the suggestion, however, and ignores that his men have taken to quarreling among themselves, sleeping with Indian women, and discussing a possible mutiny. On the eve of the attack, Chuka is reunited with Veronica; suddenly, an Indian woman stabs her sleeping partner and sets fire to the fort. The Arapahoes swarm over the walls, and Valois, impeccably dressed for battle, is killed along with everyone else by the marauding Indians. Later a cavalry troop arrives at the fort, and among the blackened ruins they find a single grave--Veronica's--marked with a cross and an empty gun holster. There is no sign of Chuka.
Director
Gordon Douglas
Cast
Rod Taylor
Ernest Borgnine
John Mills
Luciana Paluzzi
James Whitmore
Angela Dorian
Louis Hayward
Michael Cole
Hugh Reilly
Barry O'hara
Joseph Sirola
Marco Antonio
Gerald York
Herlinda Del Carmen
Lucky Carson
Crew
Robert R. Benton
John Coonan
Fred Hakim
Garry Harris
Edith Head
Jack Jason
Richard Jessup
Ray Kellogg
Tambi Larsen
Paul K. Lerpae
Nellie Manley
Jack Mills
Hal Pereira
Irmin Roberts
Howard Roessel
Herbert Spencer
Leith Stevens
Harold Stine
Rod Taylor
Nathan Van Cleave
Wally Westmore
John Wilkinson
Robert Wyman
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Tell me Se?or, are you as bad as they say?- Helena Chavez
No man is as bad as they say, Se?orita.- Chuka
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1967
Released in United States 1967
