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Chuka is a 1967 American Western film starring Rod Taylor who also produced it and worked on the screenplay. The film was directed by Gordon Douglas and is based on 1961 novel by Richard Jessup, who also wrote the screenplay.
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
The film tells the story of an outcast gunfighter who is trapped by circumstances into helping to defend a fort surrounded by starving Indians and manned by castoffs and failures. John Mills , as the commander, plays an alcoholic and impotent Englishman who decides to defend the fort and prove his own bravery.
Chuka (1967) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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
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 Mills).
- Western
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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.
