When Marcus was able to fix a shortwave radio, they listened to Connor's daily broadcast of hope to his surviving, beleaguered fighters: "We are at the brink.Only Angels Have Wingsmirrored a very successful plot element of other adventure/romance pictures of the 30s (Red Dust (1932),China Seas (1935)andTorrid Zone (1940)) - the idea of an independent woman invading an all-male, small environment and community.Each of the film's main characters, all Mafia apprentices, were introduced with a typed name (in CAPITAL letters) as a sub-title, in brief vignettes [Note: Sergio Leone'sThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)used the same technique earlier, as did later films such asReservoir Dogs (1992)andTrainspotting (1996)]:TONY (David Proval), known as Tony DeVienazo, the wise-guy, no-nonsense owner of the neighborhood bar known as Volpe's Topless, who dragged a junkie shooting up in the restroom from he bathroom through the bar and out into the street (along with his dealer-pusher), and then reprimanded his ineffective bouncer George (Peter Fain); he also loved William Blake and kept a lion cub (referred to as a "tiger" or "panther") caged in the bar's basementMICHAEL (Richard Romanus) - a low-level, shady Mafioso loan shark, known as Michael "Mikey" Longo; also a dealer of stolen and/or contraband products and equipment (i.Since then, ten years later, Polanski made his own honored Holocaust film, the Best Director-winningThe Pianist (2002).