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The Well
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The Well

Sep 24, 1951
1h 26m
★ 7.2

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

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?

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Harry Popkin Productions
Cardinal Pictures

Cast

Gwendolyn Laster

Carolyn Crawford

Gwendolyn Laster

Richard Rober

Ben Kellogg

Richard Rober

Maidie Norman

Martha Crawford

Maidie Norman

George "Spike" Hamilton

Grandpa Peabody

George "Spike" Hamilton

Ernest Anderson

Ralph Crawford

Ernest Anderson

Dick Simmons

Mickey McClure

Dick Simmons

Lane Chandler

Deputy Stan

Lane Chandler

Pat Mitchell

Peter

Pat Mitchell

Margaret Wells

Miss Peterson

Margaret Wells

Wheaton Chambers

Mr. Woody

Wheaton Chambers

Michael Ross

Deputy Frank

Michael Ross

Russell Trent

Deputy Chet

Russell Trent

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