The Bad Seed (Blu-ray)
For little Rhoda, murder is child's play.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 9 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 11, 2011
- Originally Released: 1956
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Nancy Kelly | |
Performer: | Patty McCormack, Eileen Heckart, Henry Jones, Evelyn Varden, William Hopper, Paul Fix & Jesse White | |
Directed by | Mervyn LeRoy | |
Screenwriting by | John Lee Mahin | |
Composition by | Alex North | |
Director of Photography: | Harold Rosson |
Entertainment Reviews:
1956 was way too soon for an unfettered treatment of the central premise.
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Time Out
Rating: 3/4 --
An erratic but compelling film that lingers long after the fade-out.
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TV Guide
Rating: 8/10 --
The 'secret' villain is the missing father - or we should say, the mother for trying to child-rear by herself ... The bad seed is dead - but single parents, be warned.
Film Threat
Rating: 2/5 --
Evil little girl hides her murderous ways in dated classic.
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Common Sense Media
[T]he real fun lies in the goofy mix of chills and wildly emotional hokum...
Entertainment Weekly
Director LeRoy has been overly faithful to the play script.
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TIME Magazine
This melodrama about a child with an inbred talent for homicide is pretty unpleasant stuff on its own.
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Variety
Product Description:
The plot of William March's successful novel was tailor made for Hollywood. Combined with beautiful black-and-white photography and fabulous performances, THE BAD SEED is one of the eeriest films of the 20th century. The scientifically dubious theory behind the title is that an evil disposition can be an inherited trait. Patty McCormack plays Rhoda Penmark, a seemingly sweet, beautiful, smart grade school girl who is in attendance at a school picnic in which a classmate dies. No one suspects that the accident was the result of murder except for Rhoda's apartment building janitor, a simpleton named LeRoy (Henry Jones). But when Rhoda's mother, Christine Penmark (Nancy Kelly), finds out that her real mother is a cold-blooded killer, she begins to suspect her own daughter. Her fears of what Rhoda might do conflict with her protective instincts as a mother, forcing Christina to make terrible decisions--decisions that themselves might be too late.