However, the film""s original title wasThe Loners.[The names of the two main characters, Wyatt and Billy, suggest the two memorable Western outlaws Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid - or ""Wild Bill"" Hickcock.This is not just a casual invitation.This is important.I think we""re in trouble." Mary assures him that he doesn""t have anything to fret over: "Don""t worry, dear.They don""t telegraph you to come and be shot at sunrise."[Kaufman""s and Hart""s playI""d Rather Be Right, in which Cohan appeared in the role of FDR, was produced in 1939.As he takes a wastebasket full of empty liquor bottles o the garbage, he becomes embarrassed when his neighbor Dr.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.