person or book cover
Screen cap from opening credits
form y separately published work icon A Game of Chance single work   film/TV   crime  
Issue Details: First known date: 1971... 1971 A Game of Chance
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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'.

Notes

  • 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.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Note: According to Storey, Emanuel was credited as director and Pulbrook as film director.
      1971 .
      person or book cover
      Script cover page (from the Crawford Collection at the AFI Research Collection)
      Extent: 76p.
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • The script is labelled on the cover page as 'Episode NQ'. '313' has been added in dark-blue ink. An annotation in blue felt pen indicates that this script was for actor Hamish Hughes, and that he took the role of Bill Wood in the episode.
      • There are some annotations in black ink on the list of characters, including a circle around the note for Bill Wood.
      • Throughout the script, Wood’s lines are underlined in blue ink. A note has been made next to each appearance as to whether this is 'film' or 'live'(also in blue ink). At some points, additional stage directions for Wood have been added in the margin (also in blue ink): for example, 'TAKES OFF MASK' on page 9.

      Holdings

      Held at: AFI Research Collection
      Local Id: SC HOM : 313
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