The Bad Seed
The Bad Seed is a 1956 American psychological thriller film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones and Eileen Heckart.
Plot
Kenneth and Christine Penmark dote on their eight-year-old daughter Rhoda. Kenneth leaves on military duty. Monica, the Penmarks' neighbor and landlady, visits. Rhoda, pristine and proper in her pinafore dress and blonde pigtails, tells her about a penmanship competition that she lost to her schoolmate Claude Daigle. Rhoda then leaves for her school picnic at the lake.
More details
| author | John Lee Mahin Maxwell Anderson |
|---|---|
| director | Mervyn LeRoy |
| editor | Warren Low |
| genre | horror thriller |
| keywords | adopt antisocial personality disorder burn confuse drown excelsior haunt horrify kill lightning lovebird murder penmanship pigtail pinafore dress sleeping pill sleeping pills sociopathy tap shoe tease traumatize wichita kansas wood wool |
| musicBy | Alex North |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| producer | Mervyn LeRoy |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |
| theme | film noir psychological thriller serial killer |