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?

Gwendolyn Laster
as Carolyn Crawford

Richard Rober
as Ben Kellogg

Maidie Norman
as Martha Crawford

George "Spike" Hamilton
as Grandpa Peabody

Ernest Anderson
as Ralph Crawford

Dick Simmons
as Mickey McClure

Lane Chandler
as Deputy Stan

Pat Mitchell
as Peter

Margaret Wells
as Miss Peterson

Wheaton Chambers
as Mr. Woody