The Film
The Well
I have a wife and two kids ... a thing like this can ruin me !
The Story
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?
Runtime
86 min
Released Sep 1951
Gallery
The Stills.
