The Well is rather an enjoyable melodrama. It’s the kind of story about race that has no idea why a race riot might occur, and it’s also plenty corny in its own way. For some reason it also thinks it’s perfectly ok for police to beat a guy up and treat him unfairly – and for racist cops to go unpunished. But this is a successful little thing, and it’s very well made – particularly in its editing.
I think Russell Rouse, who co-directed this picture, is a pretty good filmmaker. I liked the movie The Thief, which he made the year after The Well: it's a tight, intriguing thing with the gimmick that it contains no spoken dialogue at all. His 1964 film A House Is Not a Home, however, had problems.
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