The Bad Seed
“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.
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3 films
Cast
23 people
Patty McCormack
Rhoda Penmark
Known for
The Master
Frost/Nixon
Nancy Kelly
Christine Penmark
Known for
Jesse James
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
Henry Jones
Leroy Jessup
Known for
Vertigo
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Eileen Heckart
Hortense Daigle
Known for
Heartbreak Ridge
Burnt Offerings
Evelyn Varden
Monica Breedlove
Known for
The Night of the Hunter
Désirée
William Hopper
Col. Kenneth Penmark
Known for
Perry Mason
Rebel Without a Cause
Paul Fix
Richard Bravo
Known for
To Kill a Mockingbird
Zabriskie Point
Jesse White
Emory Wages
Known for
Harvey
The Cat from Outer Space
Gage Clarke
Reginald "Reggie" Tasker
Known for
The Return of Dracula
I Want to Live!
Joan Croydon
Claudia Fern
Also in
Theatre 62: Rebecca
The Philco Television Playhouse
Frank Cady
Henry Daigle
Known for
Rear Window
Green Acres
Frances Bavier
Woman at Dinner Party (uncredited)
Known for
The Andy Griffith Show
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Mervyn LeRoy Director · John Lee Mahin Screenplay William March Author
Worldwide gross $4.1M · Budget $1M · United States release September 12, 1956
Box office
Budget
$1,000,000
Worldwide gross
$4,100,000
Gross vs. budget
4.1×
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production · Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · August 23, 1956
Premiere · Washington, D.C.
United States · September 12, 1956
Theatrical
Italy
January 18, 1957 · Theatrical
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