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The Bad Seed

Talk all you want about the man and the woman -- but please don't tell about the girl!

1956 · NR · 2h 9m

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy

7.1

TMDB audience score
281 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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Official options in the United States:

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  • Kanopy

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  • Philo

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  • Google Play Movies
  • YouTube
  • Fandango At Home

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Cast

  • 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)

  • Violet N. Cane
    Teacher (uncredited)

  • Vivian Clermont
    Mary Beth Musgrove (uncredited)

  • Shelley Fabares
    Margie (uncredited)

  • Kathy Garver
    Rhoda's Classmate (uncredited)

  • Don C. Harvey
    Guard in Hospital (uncredited)

  • Edna Holland
    Saleslady (uncredited)