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The script held in the Crawford Collection in the AFI Research Collection contains the following character notes (excluding regular characters):

'JANIE SOMMERS: An extremely attractive young woman of twenty-five. She's well educated and intelligent. Been Barrett's "girl" for about 18 months. A position she loathes, but is of her own making. She wants to ruin him completely. The arrival of Gardiner onto the scene has given her such an opportunity.

'FRANK GARDINER: Twenty eight years of age. Intelligent but not highly educated. Good looking with an athletic build he's naturally attractive to women. A quiet and introspective nature. He has a third dan grading in Goju Kai and worked as an instructor in Sydney for a while. He's strangely honest and doesn't immediately accept Janie's proposal that he unseat Barrett and take over the organisation. His ambitions don't run that high. Drives.

'JAMES BARRETT: A fat obnoxious fifty year old gentleman who thinks he has the world in his grasp and also everybody in it. Nobody just "works" for Barrett. They belong to him. He's a successful solicitor who used his knowledge to set up a large and extremely profitable gambling organisation.

'JIM STEVENS: About 45 years old. Tending to paunch and bald. An accountant with a wife and two children. A solid middle class citizen with an ulcer.

'BARBIE STEWART: A prostitute. About 30 years. Not a street walker. A little classier. Does her hussling [sic] from pubs and clubs. Attractive. Does well in her trade. Known to the police. She has the odd soft spot.

'FREDDIE: Barbie's bludger. He runs several girls. A smallish birdlike man with a ready oily smile.

'DOCTOR THOMAS Doctor at the hospital. A resident. About 40 years. The police know him. A quiet man.

'PROSTITUTES: Three of them. Different types (no dialogue).

'VI STEVENS Wife of Jim Stevens. A little over-weight. Not attractive but not repulsive either. Another solid nebulous middle class housewife.

'INSTRUCTOR: Karato [sic] (DOJO) instructor. (actual)

'STUDENTS: Advanced (actual)

'WOMAN: TAB enthusiast'.