The Well

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A community grapples with racial tension and violence after a child falls into an abandoned well, requiring coordinated rescue efforts to restore peace.

Drama · 7.3/10 · 86 min · 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?

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