It explains why so many Hollywood leading men. especially the so called "tough guys" of old, drank so goddam much.
It explains everything imo. An industry that started as far away from Washington DC as it was possible to get, literally dovetailing with the wild west, in some of the most beautiful country and light in the world. It’s a story book, man. But my point is they must have felt beyond the law, the early film mughals.