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DVD Details
- Commentary by Patty McCormack and Charles Busch
- New Making-Of Documentary Enfant Terrible: A Conversation with Patty McCormack
- Theatrical Trailer
- Subtitles in English, French & Spanish
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 9 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 10, 2004
- Originally Released: 1956
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Nancy Kelly | |
Performer: | Patty McCormack, Eileen Heckart, Henry Jones, Evelyn Varden, William Hopper, Paul Fix & Jesse White | |
Directed by | Mervyn LeRoy | |
Screenwriting by | John Lee Mahin | |
Original story by | William March | |
Composition by | Alex North | |
Director of Photography: | Harold Rosson |
Entertainment Reviews:
This melodrama about a child with an inbred talent for homicide is pretty unpleasant stuff on its own.
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Variety
Rating: 3/4 --
The dark drama that launched a genre of evil-kid movies. [Blu-ray]
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Groucho Reviews
[The film] offers a classy dose of macabre melodrama...
Premiere
Rating: 8/10 --
The 'secret' villain is the missing father - or we should say, the mother for trying to child-rear by herself ... The bad seed is dead - but single parents, be warned.
Film Threat
[C]hilling...
Los Angeles Times
1956 was way too soon for an unfettered treatment of the central premise.
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Time Out
Rating: 5/10 --
...it's hard now to see what all the fuss was about.
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Movie Metropolis
Description by OLDIES.com:
Rhoda Penmark (Patty McCormack) is a well-mannered 8-year-old little lady - and an efficient, unfeeling killer. And in this spellbinding chronicle of evil, whatever Rhoda wants, she ruthlessly gets. Her mother Christine (Nancy Kelly), reluctantly made to see her offspring's moral blindness at work, is heartrendingly torn between the love for the child she bore and grief for Rhoda's victims.
From Maxwell Anderson's stage hit, The Bad Seed ticks like a time bomb under the skillful direction of Mervyn LeRoy, who cast several Broadway production originals, including Kelly (recreating the role that won her a Tony), McCormack and Eileen Heckart. Their harrowing performances captured three of this suspenseful movie's four Academy Award nominations - and make this thriller one of the great ones.
Product Description:
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 late.
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Very good movie.
Movie Lover: Wanda Lowery from
Jackson, TN -- June, 26, 2010
I love this movie. I even brought it on dvd. She seems like a angel, but she's really the devil's daughter. This movie will keep you on the end of your seat. You won't know what she will do next. She makes the little boy in the movie," The good Son", look like a alter boy. It's creepy! Take a chance and buy, or rent it. It's a very movie.
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