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The script held in the Crawford Collection in the AFI Research Collection contains the following character notes (excluding regular characters):
'BRIAN CLARK 24. Leader of a group of young hoodlums. Probably schizoid. Clean-cut good looks belie an unstable, vicious nature.
'PINA BIANCHI 22. Attractive, Italian descent. An emotional girl. Deeply attracted to Clark, and sees a completely different side of him. She is intelligent but ingenuous.
'BIANCHI 55. Pina's father. A wealthy Italian migrant. Well-educated but no pretentions. [sic] He is addicted to cards, plays regularly for high stakes. Honest, likeable, strong character.
'BILL WOOD 24. A big youth, and a born thug. Untidy, badly spoken, vicious.
'KEITH MORGAN 22. Smaller than Wood, makes up in slyness what he lacks in size. A streak of cowardice that he covers with bravado. He and Wood form Clark's gang, and are completely under his sway. ABLE TO DRIVE.
'COSTA / MARTINO / CONTI Friends of Bianchi. Around same age or younger. Equally addicted to cards, all are well-off businessmen. Of all the Italians, only Costa and Martino have more than the slightest trace of accent.
'SPORTS STORE PROPRIETOR 40's. Small part, few lines. A suburban businessman.
'ESPRESSO BAR OWNER 40's. Italian, tendency to melodrama and over-acting. Small part.
'THREE POLICEMEN'.
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This entry has been compiled from archival research in the Crawford Collection (AFI Research Collection), undertaken by Dr Catriona Mills under the auspices of the 2012 AFI Research Collection (AFIRC) Research Fellowship.