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Rating:  -
Amazon rocks. DVD - excellent condition - played well - Speedy delivery. As for the movie itself: great acting by all major players. Downfall: Waiting entire movie for leading couple who finally find each other again to rekindle romance, and we get 8 seconds of a very edited scene of nothing. I mean, we are talking macho sexy Rod Taylor and luscious Luciana Paluzzi - and their scene together is a mere blip in the film. Movie had great potential but ending is vague and disappointing.
Rating:  -
As westerns were adjusting to the times in the late 60s, along came a dark western made on a small budget that is about as dark as westerns come in terms of storytelling. Riding south across the desert, a gunslinger named Chuka comes across a broken-down and stranded stagecoach with two passengers, one of them a woman from his past. Chuka escorts them to the nearest fort, Fort Clendennon, only to find a worst situation. The Arapaho are on the warpath and seem on the verge of a huge attack. What's worse is that the fort's garrison are the dregs of the cavalry, men sent their as a sort of punishment. Can Chuka figure out what to do before the coming attack? The action is good here, especially a knock-down, no holds barred fight between Chuka and an army sergeant played by Ernest Borgnine, and the final battle is a memorable one, fairly graphic too for the times. Not a huge budget here and the movie was filmed on an indoor set for the fort, but the story and cast overcome the flaws. Definitely give this one a try.
Rod Taylor leads a very capable cast as Chuka, a cowhand turned hired gun who meets a woman he loved from his past. Taylor played several anti-heroes in westerns, and is very good here as he builds up an impressive kill count. Ernest Borgnine is good in a tough guy role as Sgt. Otto Hahnsbach, the tough sarge who remains loyal to the fort's commander when everything points against it. John Mills plays Colonel Stuart Valois, the commander of the fort who yearns for the good old days with his British regiment in India. Italian beauty Luciana Paluzzi makes the most of a somewhat unnecessary part as Veronica, a Mexican woman with lots of money who may still have feelings for Taylor's Chuka. James Whitmore has a good role as Lou Trent, the grizzled old head scout who clashes with Valois and sides with Chuka. It's an all-around good cast that makes an average movie a notch above the rest.
The DVD, a good deal at around $10, has the movie in a high quality widescreen presentation but since the movie was filmed mostly on an indoor set, there's only a few shots of the California locations. No special features at all, but the print of the movie is a good one. A very good western that shows how the genre was changing, give Chuka a try!
Rating:  -
This is a pretty good Western, not great, but enjoyable. I titled it "Italian Style", but have no idea where the film was made. The title was in honor of a lady who has not been given the recognition she so richly deserves. Luciana Paluzzi admits that had she not traveled back and forth to her home in Italy she might have had a bigger career by sticking to one country. Whatever the reason for her not being fully recognized, we are happy that she made films and TV appearances here as she is truly outstanding. I have to add that she is one of the best of the Bond women.
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Chuka is a wandering gunfighter that happens to get involved in a dispute between some starving indians and an oddball assortment of misfits at a calvary fort.In the middle of this Chuka meets an old flame traveling with her young female charge that have to hold up at the fort.After the battle army higher ups try to find out what happened to the troops and civilians ,there is only the post log and 2 fresh graves inside the fort walls,Very good western,has it all,some good scenery,the gunfighter,the army,and the indians,plus the underlying love story.Stars Rod Taylor,Earnest Borgnine and John Mills..........I would give it an A,but like this western and the stars,so that is just me..................
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I saw this movie a long time ago when I was a kid and really enjoyed it back then (mid 70's). I must say it is everything I remembered. I thought it was a really good western. All the characters are memorable and it is a very compelling and fun movie to watch. Love Taylors character and costume as well as Whitmores as the old grizzled and tough scout. And the friction between the virile Taylor and the impotent Mills is great. And then add to it the hulking Ernest Borgnine who is Mills Sergeant and also the one man who respects and knows Mills and you have one of the best two fisted fight scenes in movie history. Watching Taylor and Borgnine go at it was just a gem.
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