When Quentin Tarantino was 6 years old and living in Southern California, he remembers his parents taking him horseback riding. He doesn’t remember where it took place — but at a Cannes Film Festival press conference on Wednesday for his new film, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” the director said he had a secret wish for where the excursion took place: the Spahn Ranch in Chatsworth on the outskirts of Los Angeles.
At the time he and his parents would have gone for that ride, the Ranch, a former movie location popular with Western films and television shows, was occupied by a ragtag group of hippies who coalesced around Charles Manson, who would lead them to carry out brutal murders in the summer of 1969.