The actual Los Angeles was a fly-ridden settlement of tumble-down adobes, packs of feral dogs and one of the nation’s highest murder rates.

Some peddled their pills near tumble-down storefronts and on blighted street corners in addiction-plagued parts of Allegheny County, where deaths by drug overdose reached record levels last year.

Off a dirt road, in a small village north of Tirana, there's a half-built, tumble-down, brick house.

The city's High Street was a dirt road then, with tumble-down thatched cottages on one side and hoardings on the other.

Their father “was very drunk. He could hardly walk up the rickety steps of the old tumble-down house, and his thirteen-year-old son had to help him.”