The Well

Perhaps nobody saw this picture as what it really is: a racial thriller and, astonishingly for the time it was filmed, one of the first anti-racist movies ever made. Especially shocking is the scene when an angered group of whites are loading handguns and rifles to start a certain racial war, and suddenly someone arrives to tell them that the little girl was found. The leader of the group stops loading his gun, looks at him, and asks with a confused look, 'What girl?' The final scenes, with black and white people working together to save the little girl, are also a testimony to the need for cooperation among people of all races.