The Bad Seed (1956)

Directed by

Mervyn LeRoy

Genre

drama film, film noir, horror film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 268 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mother begins to fear that her eight year old daughter may be a psychopathic killer. She struggles with her growing suspicion and the evidence mounting against the child.

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What happens

The Bad Seed is a 1956 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones and Eileen Heckart, about an eight-year-old girl whose mother begins to suspect that she might be a psychopathic killer. The film adapts the 1954 play of the same name by Maxwell Anderson, which in turn is based on William March's 1954 novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by John Lee Mahin. Kelly, McCormack, and Heckart each garnered Academy Awards nominations for their performances, as well as Harold Rosson's cinematography. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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