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6.2/10 • 28

1967-07-231h 45m

ActionDramaWestern

He's a man called Chuka and you don't forget it!

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

Directors
Gordon Douglas
Editors
Bob Wyman

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Rod Taylor

    Rod Taylor

    Chuka

  2. Ernest Borgnine

    Ernest Borgnine

    Sgt. Otto Hahnsbach

  3. John Mills

    John Mills

    Colonel Stuart Valois

  4. Luciana Paluzzi

    Luciana Paluzzi

    Señora Veronica Kleitz

  5. James Whitmore

    James Whitmore

    Lou Trent

  6. Victoria Vetri

    Victoria Vetri

    Señorita Helena Chavez

  7. Louis Hayward

    Louis Hayward

    Major Benson

  8. Joseph Sirola

    Joseph Sirola

    Jake Baldwin

  9. Marco López

    Marco López

    Hanu

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John Chard

Jun 12, 2017

5/10

We're the scum of the United States Army. Colonel. Chuka is directed by Gordon Douglas and adapted to screenplay by Richard Jessup from his own novel. It stars Rod Taylor, John Mills, Ernest Borgnine, Luciana Paluzzi, James Whimore, Louis Hayward and Victoria Vetri. Music is by Leith Stevens and Pthe Color photography by Harold E. Stine. 1876 and Fort Clendenon is host to a bunch of army misfits and a lovelorn gunslinger, hardly a group capable of defending the Fort against an impending Arapaho attack... A super cast and a rather gorgeous colour print can't avert this being a distinctly average Siege Oater. Prodution wise it's a hodgepodge, an uneasy blend of stuffy looking studio bound sequences, matte paintings and airy locales, while the acting, sparse characterisations and general reliance on non meaty chatty filler scenes, all make it an odd viewing experience. The chat angle is most frustrating, not so much because there is so much of it so as to make this a 90% talky piece, but in that there are moments of great dialogue, where interesting character arcs are dangled, but alas they are threads that are never pulled to the benefit of all. Action is sparse but what there is is competently staged, with the siege itself - while not worth the wait - has enough moments of excitement and intelligence so as to not annoy. A very good and intriguing ending further adds to the strange mix of poor and good of it all, but ultimately it's average and hardly essential for fans of Westerns and the stars involved. 5/10

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
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