Old West

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.

When you picture an Old West town, Clifton is it.