The script held in the Crawford Collection in the AFI Research Collection contains the following character notes (excluding regular characters):
'JENNY FRANKLIN: Late 20's. Attractive, intelligent, forthright. A widely travelled but unpretentious girl. She has a clear idea of what she wants from life and goes about it with a realistic determination.
'ALBERT REGAN: 40's. A seasoned criminal whose career to date has been non-violent. He's very much a loner who, through circumstances, has teamed up with a young criminal for a prison escape, and then finds himself caught up in a treadmill of cause and effect, beyond his comprehension and control.
'DESMOND BAKER: 19. A small and unattractive juvenile crim driven to violence by social impotence. Confused and unstable.
'MRS. REGAN: 40ish. An unintelligent rather weak woman. Uncritical, easily committed.
'DEBBIE REGAN: 19. Attractive rather tarty girl who possibly looks older than her years following a precarious introduction to prostitution. Already her emotions are calloused by her conscious suppression of any tenderness or warmth.
'BOYFRIEND: 30's. Unprincipled opportunist. A well-to-do bludger - totally lacking in taste or courage.
'HARRY JACKS: 40's. Plump, squat, sleazily prosperous - a fringe crim and fence.
'MR. APEX: 50's. A small and balding hole-in-the-wall businessman, who lives in the wood-work at an all-but-condemned office building.
'KERRY MICHAELS: 19. Attractive childlike dreamy pot-head.
'LORRAINE HUNT: Late 20's. Attractive, tall, dominant when required, a sometime incestuous mother-figure to Kerry.
'REVEREND LEWIS: 50's. Trying very hard to be up with it. A man who makes much of his contact with the world of the delinquent but contributes little. Rather glib and superficial.
'INSPECTOR CRAINE: 40's. Seasoned Homicide Inspector. Physically impressive, alert and decisive.
'HOMICIDE SERGEANT:
'PRESTON: Established.
'POLICE WEAPONS INSTRUCTOR: Actual if possible.
'PASSERBY: Middle aged woman.
'POLICE EXTRAS: (3).
'BYSTANDERS:
'WOMAN CASUALTY: Middle aged.
'BANK MANAGER:
'CONSTABLE FRASER: Suggest stunt man for death scene.
'JILL FRASER: 20's. Wife of fatally wounded policeman. One important scene with Dwyer.
'DOCTOR:
'AMBULANCE MEN: Actual.
'POLICE DEPOT PERSONNEL: Actual.
'SEARCH AND RESCUE PERSONNEL: Actual.
'VIOLENT DRUNK:
'TWO CRIMS:
'WEIRDO: 20'ish.'
