The Well
“I have a wife and two kids ... a thing like this can ruin me !”
Director
Russell Rouse
Screenplay
Clarence Greene, 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?
Release
Sep 24, 1951
Budget
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Country
United States of America
Revenue
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Cast
Gwendolyn Laster
Carolyn Crawford
Richard Rober
Ben Kellogg
Maidie Norman
Martha Crawford
Ernest Anderson
Ralph Crawford
Dick Simmons
Mickey McClure
Lane Chandler
Deputy Stan
Wheaton Chambers
Mr. Woody
Michael Ross
Deputy Frank
Christine Larson
Casey
Edwin Max
Bert
Robert Osterloh
Alex Wylie
Harry Morgan
Claude Packard
Barry Kelley
Sam Packard
Mary Ellen Kay
Lois
Beverly Jons
Sally
Elzie Emanuel
Student
Tom Powers
Jim, Mayor
Bill Walker
Dr. Billings
Douglas Evans
Lobel
George Magrill
Construction Worker (uncredited)
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