In 'The Well' a small Midwestern town's racial divisons are laid open, when a five year old black girl disappeares shortly after being seen in the company of a white stranger (Colonel Potter himself Henry Morgan). Tensions quickly rise and before long there is race rioting and the national guard is called in. Then the young girl is found having fallen down a well, the town awkwardly comes together to try and rescue her. A bold movie to make in 1951. I wish it had been tighter. **1/2
Actor Richard Rober, who played the towns level headed sheriff, died the following year in a car accident at the age of 42. The car he was in plummeted over an embankment in a heavy fog. Three years earlier in the movie 'The File on Thelma Jordan' Rober played a character who also died in a car the plummeted over an embankment.
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