The Well (1951)

Director: Russell Rouse

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?

Cast

Gwendolyn Laster

Carolyn Crawford

Richard Rober

Ben Kellogg

Maidie Norman

Martha Crawford

George "Spike" Hamilton

Grandpa Peabody

Ernest Anderson

Ralph Crawford

Dick Simmons

Mickey McClure

Lane Chandler

Deputy Stan

Pat Mitchell

Peter

Margaret Wells

Miss Peterson

Wheaton Chambers

Mr. Woody