Dick York
left the show because of chronic back pain. However, his replacement was
never explained on the show, leaving many fans confused. York had been
injured during the making of the film They Came to Cordura, which had been filmed five years earlier in 1959. York never completely recovered. In his words:
“Gary Cooper and I were propelling a handcar carrying several
‘wounded’ men down [the] railroad track. I was on the bottom stroke of
this sort of teeter-totter mechanism that made the handcar run. I was
just lifting the handle up as the director yelled ‘cut!’ and one of the
‘wounded’ cast members reached up and grabbed the handle. I was
suddenly, jarringly, lifting his entire weight off the flatbed — 180
pounds or so. The muscles along the right side of my back tore. They
just snapped and let loose. And that was the start of it all: the pain,
the painkillers, the addiction, the lost career.”
Reviewed by health-mg
on
June 11, 2020
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