# The Well (1951)

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? Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/the-well-1951/

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1951
- By: Leo C. Popkin, Russell Rouse
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/the-well-1951)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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