The Well
DirectorsRussell Rouse, Leo C. Popkin
“I have a wife and two kids ... a thing like this can ruin me !”
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?
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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
Michael Ross
Deputy Frank
Russell Trent
Deputy Chet
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