The Bad Seed (1956)
Talk all you want about the man and the woman -- but please don't tell about the girl!
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.
- Date of release
- 1956-09-12
- TMDB
- 7.1 / 10 (276)
- Runtime
- 2h 9m
- Genres
- Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Director
- Mervyn LeRoy
Casting
- Patty McCormack — Rhoda Penmark
- Nancy Kelly — Christine Penmark
- Henry Jones — Leroy Jessup
- Eileen Heckart — Hortense Daigle
- Evelyn Varden — Monica Breedlove
- William Hopper — Col. Kenneth Penmark
- Paul Fix — Richard Bravo
- Jesse White — Emory Wages
- Gage Clarke — Reginald "Reggie" Tasker
- Joan Croydon — Claudia Fern
- Frank Cady — Henry Daigle
- Frances Bavier — Woman at Dinner Party (uncredited)
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