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Chuka is a 1967 American Western film starring Rod Taylor who also produced it and worked on the screenplay. [3] The film was directed by Gordon Douglas and is based on 1961 novel by Richard Jessup, [4] who also wrote the screenplay. [5]
Chuka: Directed by Gordon Douglas. With Rod Taylor, Ernest Borgnine, John Mills, Luciana Paluzzi. 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.
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- Western
- Gordon Douglas
- 1967-07-23
Subscribed. 109. Rod Taylor (The Birds, The Time Machine) rides onto the screen in top form as CHUKA, a heroic gunslinger who attempts to encourage peace between a desperate...
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.
- Gordon Douglas, Ray Kellogg, Howard Roessel
- Rod Taylor
Rod Taylor's "Chuka" is an intelligently acted and directed Western that has been burdened, for some reason, with a plot so melodramatic that the effect is lost. The loss is a considerable one, because Taylor has given a great deal to his portrayal of Chuka, a professional gunfighter, and other roles in the film are filled with similar care.
Chuka. Gunfighter Chuka (Rod Taylor) escorts the passengers of a broken-down stagecoach to Fort Clandennon, a remote Army outpost run by stern British Col. Stuart Valois (John...
- Western
Jan 18, 2024 · Mark Franklin January 18, 2024 1960s. Rod Taylor is the renown gunfighter Chuka, who rides into Fort Clendennon and finds a cavalry outpost on the verge of disaster. Outside, the starving Arapaho under Chief Hanu are planning to take the fort; they want the food and munitions stored there.
