I wish it had explain what happened to the girl and Chuka .. I assume the grave is the woman that he loved .. I have never seen this movie and enjoyed it very much .. Rod Taylor was a gifted actor .. I love him in almost everything that I have seen him in .
"A man that wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough".
I saw this when it came out with my dad. I would have been all of nine. I remember being shocked that everyone was killed. Aside from perhaps an inferior remake of "Stagecoach" Chuka is the first theatrical western of which I have any clear memory. Glad it was one that demonstrated the Indians had legitimate grievances.
Now, having watched it again for the first time in nearly fifty years, I realized I had always assumed the grave was Chuka's, having succumbed to the wound, buried by the girl, who then moved on. Obviously that's not the case. I can only guess that the screenwriters were somehow prevented from having the younger woman killed so Chuka could be assumed to have moved on to Cali with the woman he loved.
Leaving it the way they did, otherwise, makes very little sense.
Yes, I'm pretty sure that's the grave of Veronica Kleitz. And we are probably to assume, Chuka and Helena left, maybe to live together, as a couple, because she had shown interest in him and didn't want her partner to be chosen by her parents - like Veronica's.
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