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The Bad Seed
Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.
1956 · Directed by Mervyn LeRoy · 129 min · Drama · Horror · Thriller · 9 frames
Tagline
Talk all you want about the man and the woman -- but please don't tell about the girl!
Crew
- Screenplay: John Lee Mahin
- Cinematography: Harold Rosson
- Edited by: Warren Low
- Music: Alex North
- Produced by: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast
- Patty McCormack as Rhoda Penmark
- Nancy Kelly as Christine Penmark
- Henry Jones as Leroy Jessup
- Eileen Heckart as Hortense Daigle
- Evelyn Varden as Monica Breedlove
- William Hopper as Col. Kenneth Penmark
- Paul Fix as Richard Bravo
- Jesse White as Emory Wages
- Gage Clarke as Reginald "Reggie" Tasker
- Joan Croydon as Claudia Fern
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Budget: $1,000,000
- Themes: lightning, confession, child murder, murder, lightning bolt, psychotic, evil child, cautionary, murder confession, critical
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