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The Bad Seed (1956) | User Rating
(13 votes) | Critic Rating
(2 reviews) |
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 10, 2004
Budget USD 1,000,000
Running Time
2 hours, 9 minutes
Country USA
Studio Warner Brothers
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• The Bad Seed
• Böse Saat (1956)
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Genre: Thriller, Horror, Murder, Suspense, Psychos, Marriage, Melodrama, Disturbing, Serial Killer
Tagline: "The Bad Seed" is the big shocker!
Plot: The plot of William March’s successful novel was tailor made for Hollywood. Combined with beautiful black-and-white photography and fabulous performances, THE BAD SEED is one of the eeriest films of the 20th century. The scientifically dubious theory behind the title is that an evil disposition can be an inherited trait. Patty McCormack plays Rhoda Penmark, a seemingly sweet, beautiful, smart grade school girl who is in attendance at a school picnic in which a classmate dies. No one suspects that the accident was the result of murder except for Rhoda’s apartment building janitor, a simpleton named LeRoy (Henry Jones). But when Rhoda’s mother, Christine Penmark (Nancy Kelly), finds out that her real mother is a cold-blooded killer, she begins to suspect her own daughter. Her fears of what Rhoda might do conflict with her protective instincts as a mother, forcing Christina to make terrible decisions--decisions that themselves might be too
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 The precursor to movies like The Omen and The Good Son is quite good, and all the more impressive because it was made in the fifties. 77/100--Jack Witzig (ColdSpot)
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| Directed by |
Mervyn LeRoy
Mister Roberts, Quo Vadis, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang |
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| Written by |
| John Lee Mahin
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, The Horse Soldiers, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
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| Cast |
Nancy Kelly
Tarzan's Desert Mystery, Jesse James, Stanley and Livingstone | | Henry Jones
Vertigo, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Arachnophobia | | | William Hopper
The Maltese Falcon, Rebel Without a Cause, 20 Million Miles to Earth | Paul Fix
To Kill a Mockingbird, Giant, Red River | |
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| Music By |
Alex North
Spartacus, Good Morning, Vietnam, A Streetcar Named Desire |
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