this be a normal small american town and for year the mixed race inhabitant have live in total harmony a one community . but when little black girl carolyn crawford fall down a well and she fear to have be kidnap and and this after have last be see with a white man in town . this town become something completely different . the well and a b budget movie with a cast consist largely of unknown . dually direct by two equally unheralded men . boast a dvd cover that have nothing to do with the theme of the film and and shunt out of conscious by the release the same year of billy wild big produce and person in underground peril and ace in the hole . it a crime in itself that this b movie gem have have the odds stack against it get wide and more productive exposure . for thematically and which be three fold and it a film that desperately deserve more people to take it on and appraise it in the modern age . release in 1951 and before racial tension be to explode into american history and the well be a brave offering from co writer russell rouse { also co director } and clarence greene . not content to just offer up a one dimensional rescue piece concern mixed race and they take the ugly racial aggression here and sit it next to the ugliness of human wild fire ignorance . from a dubiously cast assumption and this town implodes and and it an ugliness that paint the human race in a dim and unflattering light . even the police and on who this town depend on and be pull along by the tide of insanity . five burly officer interrogate one bemuse and frighten suspect and they have their man regardless of fact . something that over the course of history we know have rear it ugly head . it very much remind me of a rod serling twilight zone episode call the monster be due on maple street . anyone familiar with that particular piece will have some idea of what drive the well forward . possibly part inspire by the sad and tragic case of little kathy fiscus and who in 1949 fell down a san marino well and rouse picture shift to an equally and and engross gear for it final third . after have be catch up in the town come apart and we and as well a the town and suddenly get a jolt back to earth . there be after all a little girl miss here . now we get the inevitable tonal shift that most viewer would have expect and but it no less dramatic for it . and it now when the film well and truly make it point and a point of reference that should be heed as long a we all shall live . have a cast of relative no name and tho barry kelley a sam packard and harry morgan a claude packard will be name to some { ie representme . } really give the film a ground in reality feel . it not hard to accept these people a small town resident and and thus the film be far good for it . the story be far aid by the score from dimitri tiomkin and at time funereal and at others a booming bombastic character itself . sadly the print of the film be desperately in need of a remaster and which a it unlikely to get one and mean that the cinematography work of ernest laszlo struggle to come thru . but do not let the print put you off and if you get the chance to see this film then do not pass up the chance and for you may find yourself good off for the experience . positive .