The Well
- Original title
- The Well
- Year
- 1951
- Running time
- 86 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Richard Rober
- Gwendolyn Laster
- Maidie Norman
- George Hamilton
- Ernest Anderson
- Dick Simmons
- Lane Chandler
- Pat Mitchell
- Margaret Wells
- Wheaton Chambers
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- Music
- Cinematography
Ernest Laszlo (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Film noir. Drama
- Synopsis
- In a racially mixed American town, a 5-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 Packard's troubles pale by comparison as ever more inflated rumors uncap the well of racial tensions and mob violence. And young Carolyn Crawford, forgotten by most, is still missing...
- Awards
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1951: 2 Nominations for Oscar: Best Editing, Story and Screenplay1951: Golden Globes: Nominated for Best Motion Picture Score
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