The Well (1951)

"I have a wife and two kids ... a thing like this can ruin me !"

Drama

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?

Russell Rouse 86 min United States of America

DirectorRussell Rouse

CastDick Simmons, Ernest Anderson, George "Spike" Hamilton, Gwendolyn Laster, Maidie Norman, Richard Rober

CountryUnited States of America

Duration86 min