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?

• Harry Popkin Productions
• Cardinal Pictures
• Gwendolyn Laster
• Richard Rober
• Maidie Norman
• George "Spike" Hamilton
• Ernest Anderson
• Dick Simmons
• Lane Chandler
• Pat Mitchell