"I have a wife and two kids ... a thing like this can ruin me !"
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?
Carolyn Crawford

Ben Kellogg

Martha Crawford

Grandpa Peabody
Ralph Crawford

Mickey McClure

Deputy Stan

Peter
Miss Peterson
Mr. Woody

Deputy Frank

Deputy Chet
Deputy Hal
Deputy Fred
Art
Casey

Quigley
Gleason
Gaines
Bert

Baggage Man
Alex Wylie

Claude Packard

Sam Packard

Chip Williams
Lois

Sally

Student

Jim, Mayor

Dr. Billings

Lobel
Manners
Construction Worker (uncredited)
