Similarities also exist between the demise of Nails Nathan and the 1923 death of real-life Samuel J."Nails" Morton of the O""Banion mob.The retaliatory horse killing in the film was a replay of a similar incident when organized crime figure Louis "Two-Gun" Alterie (and other North Side gang members) executed the offending horse in Chicago after the death of their friend.And yet the Earth is threatened by the same fate as Krypton""s." They cautioned him against acting, and even recommended that he leave the "primitive" Earth and flee to new worlds where war had already been long forgotten." Boy thought: "We""ll see."A stand-off of the two clans occurred at the Pussyfoot Bridge - the boundary line between the two families.One of the cable editors, Mr.Bradley (Charles Halton), received a cable-gram from the foreign news office in London, and reported it to Mr.