Chuka

Chuka (1967)

Actors: Edith Head (costume designer), Ernest Borgnine (actor), Louis Hayward (actor), John Mills (actor), Ford Rainey (actor), Rod Taylor (actor), James Whitmore (actor), Leon Charles (miscellaneous crew), Luciana Paluzzi (actress), Rod Taylor (producer), Leith Stevens (composer), Gordon Douglas (director), Bob Wyman (editor), Michael Cole (actor), Joseph Sirola (actor),

Genres: Western,
Taglines: Of his kind Chuka's the best there is. At fighting. At loving. And when it had to be - at killing!

Quotes:

Helena Chavez: Tell me Señor, are you as bad as they say?::Chuka: No man is as bad as they say, Señorita.

Trent: Wake me up when it's time to die.::Chuka: Are you scared of dyin', Lou?::Trent: Not particularly. It just comes an inconvenient time.

Col. Stuart Valois: It will be wonderful to dine instead of to feed. It seems to be the routine when men in a country like this are isolated. I miss the conversation... the eloquence of dining in mixed company.

Col. Stuart Valois: I've discovered, Mr. Chuka, that to a savage kindness means weakness. He'll despise you for it. The moment you turn your back, he'll put a knife in it. I offer you that piece of intelligence. It might save your life someday.::Chuka: Colonel, they're awful hungry out there. I think they're mean. And unless you give them food or the rifles to hunt their own, they're gonna come in here and *take* it. That's a little piece of intelligence that might save *your* life sometime.

Col. Stuart Valois: How many men have you killed?::Chuka: I stopped counting at sixteen.::Col. Stuart Valois: Were they fair fights? Mr. Chuka! Where they fair fights?::Chuka: Fifteen were fair.::Col. Stuart Valois: And what is fair to you, Mr. Chuka::Chuka: They were facing me. They had a chance at me.::Col. Stuart Valois: And the sixteenth?::Chuka: I shot him in the back of the head. But like the doctor here, I can't prove that he stuck a knife in me and was stealing my horse.

Sgt. Otto Hansbach: Where are you from?::Chuka: Anywhere I happen to be.

Col. Stuart Valois: Please don't allow the actions and therefore the discipline of one man to disturb you.::Veronica Kleits: In a lifetime, Colonel Valois, I have learned that one man is the image of all men.

Veronica Kleits: You have become quite hard.::Chuka: Since I didn't measure up to your standards in life, madame, I had to find a way to bring people down to mine.::Veronica Kleits: With your gun, I hear, Senor Chuka.::Chuka: With my gun, Senora Kleits

Sgt. Otto Hansbach: Now you can pull that gun of yours and shoot me where I stand, or you can defend yourself as best you can, because I intend to beat you into the ground with my fists. Now, I'm waiting on ya!

Col. Stuart Valois: You reek of whiskey, Trent! Not exactly the quality one looks for in a Chief Scout.