Old West

“He was born in the Old West, the dying days. And by the time he’s 21, it’s the 20th century, and everything is changing and he’s adapting like some kid jumping on the internet in the ‘80s or YouTube in the aughts,” said Larry Nemecek, board president of the nonprofit Will Rogers Ranch Foundation.

He owned or leased about 18,000 acres and put them all to work: as full-sized sets representing Old West towns, a Dutch village with a windmill, Swiss and Puritan and native American and fishing settlements.

As ABC News observes, it “was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier justice in the Old West.”

Kate Turner, 67, from Stanton, Suffolk, started as a cadet nurse at the age of 17 in the old West Suffolk Hospital in Hospital Road, Bury St Edmunds.

Viggo Mortensen, one of Alonso’s recurrent collaborators, stars as a father searching for his daughter in the first segment set in the Old West, which cleverly gives way to present-day South Dakota, and eventually to the Brazilian Amazon a few decades in the past.