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Movie Facts

Status: Released

Runtime: 129

Budget: -

Revenue: -

Language: en

Webpage: -

Release Info

  • 1956-09-12
     NR

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Alternative Titles

  • Mala semilla
  • A Tara Maldita
Content Score: 100

(1956)

6.7/10 (24 votes)

Overview

Young Rhoda Penmark is sweet, smart … and inherently evil! After a school chum dies during a picnic, no one suspects Rhoda, except the janitor of her apartment building. But when Rhoda's mother finds out that her own mother was a cold-blooded killer, she begins to suspect Rhoda might be the victim of some faulty genetics.

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A WOMAN'S SHAME...Out in the Open!

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Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Writers: ,

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Cast

Patty McCormack

Patty McCormack
as Rhoda Penmark

Eileen Heckart

Eileen Heckart
as Hortense Daigle

Henry Jones

Henry Jones
as Leroy Jessup

Nancy Kelly

Nancy Kelly
as Christine Penmark

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A review by John Chard

Sowing the seeds of evil.

The Bad Seed is directed by Mervyn LeRoy and adapted to screenplay by Maxwell Anderson from the novel of the same name written by William March. Anderson had also adapted for the stage play as well. It stars Nancy Kelly, William Hopper, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones, Eileen Heckart and Evelyn Varden. Music is by Alex North and cinematography by Harold Rossen.

Is there such a thing as Bad Seed? Where I grew up there was a violent family of four brothers, each one would think nothing of doing a Begbie on you. It was the first time I heard the saying Bad Seed, with t... read the rest.

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