In the film, Liotta batted right-handed and threw left-handed - the opposite of "Shoeless."]One night against a blue-black sky as he admired his finished creation, Ray spoke to Annie about taking an enormous chance with their finances: "I have just created something totally illogical.Suddenly, Madge entered the store and seductively asked Marvin to provide a light for her cigarette, as his family members looked on.His character changed when he confronted both Eddie Brock and then Marko after a bank robbery in an underground subway station - he left believing the Sandman was dead after he disintegrated in a flood of water.Dustin Hoffman""s characterization as the unglamorous ""Ratso"" Rizzo (Enrico Salvatore Rizzo), a sickly individual who befriends he drifter, was only his second film role.On a dark, rainy night on a shadowy street where a neon HOTEL sign blinks on and off and a Dobson""s Feed and Grain sign is prominent, an alienated, young fourteen-year-old Bart Tare (Rusty Tamblyn), with rain dripping off his face, walks toward the screen and a hardware-store window, where he obsessively and privately covets an ivory-handled gun resting temptingly there in a display.