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73% Critic Match
The Well
“I have a wife and two kids ... a thing like this can ruin me !”
7.3 / 10• 1951• 1h 26m•NR• English
Drama
Storyline
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 & Crew
Gwendolyn Laster
Carolyn Crawford
Lead
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
PM
Pat Mitchell
Peter
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Russell Rouse's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Well is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
