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...Farce in Durango...
...your March 23 story, "Epic in Durango," you misrepresented the facts concerning the near drowning of Audie Murphy. I know because I was visiting Audie in Durango at the time the incident happened. The people involved-Inge Morath, Bill Pickens and Audie-are my personal friends...
...couple of months ago, rakish Director John Huston took Stars Audrey Hepburn, Burt Lancaster and Audie Murphy to the Mexican iron-mining town of Durango (pop. 59,500) to film The Unforgiven and save $600,000 (in Mexico, an Indian with horse costs $2 a day against $40 in Hollywood). Now Huston stands to spend an extra $1,000,000-the price of maintaining a vast army of cows and cowboys for a month more than expected...
Huston & Co. have certainly changed Durango. Its economy is giddily inflated, from the rising business (up 20%) of merchants to the soaring price of good imported whisky and bad local women. The town's new taste of high life is even giddier. Producer Jim Hill adorned the place with his glittering wife, Rita Hayworth. Rugged Charles Bickford had his food flown in from a Hollywood gourmet shop, including 100 steaks for which there were no adequate freezing facilities...
...Hills mansion. But trouble was far from over. Returning from a trip to Nicaragua, three of the film's technicians were killed when their plane crashed near Managua. This tragedy was followed by a farce, when Director Huston led a duck-shooting party to a mountain lake near Durango. One of the hunters: Audie Murphy, the U.S. Army's most decorated soldier in World War II, and a Texan man of action. When Murphy's hunting companion stood up in their boat to fire, the recoil threw him overboard. The boat rolled over, stunning Murphy...