on a roll after doing the successful "iron man" movies with robert downey jr.s one is close to his heart. you always wanted to make a western? >> yeah,, wrote a western right after "swingers." i've been trying to work in this milieu for a long time. >> reporter: what is it about westerners you love? >> it's a classic american forerule. it's opera. big characters and big stories. there's a hero, somebody who needs redemption. those stories are told time and time again. >> there's a sort of simple thethic that the western man lived. it really was self-reliance, you know. ititas simple rules. finish what you start. you know? do the best job you can. they're all -- they were work ethic rules really. and so it's nice to do a film that has that as, you know, as part of the armiture of it, the simplicity, straightfordness and something really sort of black and white. >> take 'em to missouri, mit. >> reporter: for decade, hollywood made western movies like "red river" to rake in a dependable box office profit and to take a long hard look at american values, american dr

i thought robert downey jr was absolutely extraordinary but i don't know if that was daddy i was born when my father was already of white haired. i've got to know him when he must have been about sixty five or six and it was all you see you see. from a child the man the little tramp in the movies with this guy with dark hair when curly hair and it had nothing to do with my father my father was charlie chaplin and the tramp tramp and so i don't know if that's a good portrayal of not. but it's certainly a very attractive one it should have been longer the movie version and then long as chapel hill because it was a long line. you played your first. mistake in line lines yeah it was an extra yeah what was your first impression when you first came to know how it's made i mean back behind the wings. i had no idea i was eight years old. i was just so happy not to have to go to school. and then we had to go to school anyway because that was a law that you had to have classes but i so yes i still reconstruct in london and it was it was ok it was cool but it was nothing i wasn't old enough to r

. >> when river phoenix and kurt cobain overdosed from heroin and then you started hearing robert downey jr. and this one and that star and that celebrity, all of a sudden it made it like not only acceptable but expectable. >> the colombian cartel used its established cocaine routes through central and south america that were faster and cheaper than the old routes used to move heroin through france and later asia. that's how the french connection game colombian connection. but when cali cartel members were arrested in 1995 a whole new generation of heroin traffickers took their place. >> right now anyone in colombia that has a route basically to the united states could be a substantial heroin trafficker. >> as opposed to these big centralized drug king pins are we talking about really more mom and pop operations? >> exactly. >> with a profit margin of $200,000 a kilo, just over two pounds, drug smugglers began figuring out new and better ways to smuggle heroin into the country. in corn flakes, in furniture, hidden in human couriers, on cruise ship passengers, even in kidney beans. >> you fi