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The Well (1951)
Directed by Russell Rouse, Leo C. Popkin
“I have a wife and two kids ... a thing like this can ruin me !”
Drama · 1h 26m
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
G
George "Spike" Hamilton
Grandpa Peabody
Ernest Anderson
Ralph Crawford
Dick Simmons
Mickey McClure
Lane Chandler
Deputy Stan
P
Pat Mitchell
Peter
M
Margaret Wells
Miss Peterson
Wheaton Chambers
Mr. Woody
Michael Ross
Deputy Frank
R
Russell Trent
Deputy Chet
Crew
- Director
- Russell Rouse, Leo C. Popkin
- Writer
- Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse
- Director of Photography
- Ernest Laszlo
- Original Music Composer
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- Editor
- Chester W. Schaeffer
- Producer
- Leo C. Popkin, Clarence Greene
Details
- Release date
- 1951-09-24
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Harry Popkin Productions, Cardinal Pictures