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The Well (1951)

Directed by Russell Rouse, Leo C. Popkin

Overview

In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the child was seen with a white stranger, and rumors run wild. Before hapless, innocent Claude Packard is even found, popular hysteria has him tried and convicted. But is he guilty?

Length 86 minutes

Actors

Gwendolyn Laster | Richard Rober | Maidie Norman | George Hamilton | Ernest Anderson | Dick Simmons | Lane Chandler | Pat Mitchell | Margaret Wells | Wheaton Chambers | Michael Ross | Russell Trent | Allen Mathews | John Philips | Walter Morrison | Christine Larsen | Jess Kirkpatrick | Roy Engel | Alfred Grant | Edwin Max | Guy Beach | Robert Osterloh | Harry Morgan | Barry Kelley | Walter Kelly | Mary Ellen Kay | Beverly Jons | Elzie Emanuel | Tom Powers | Bill Walker | Douglas Evans | Sherry Hall | George Magrill