The Bad Seed

The Bad Seed is a 1956 American psychological horror-thriller film, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones and Eileen Heckart.
It based on the 1954 play of the same name by Maxwell Anderson, which in turn is based upon William March's 1954 novel, also the same name.
==Plot==
Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark (William Hopper) and his wife, Christine (Nancy Kelly), dote on their pig-tailed daughter, Rhoda (Patty McCormack), as does their lonely landlady, Monica Breedlove (Evelyn Varden). But self-centered Rhoda has a secret tendency for selfishness and loves to accumulate gifts, whether given or stolen, in her room. 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.
==Cast==
*Nancy Kelly as Christine Penmark
*Patty McCormack as Rhoda Penmark
*Henry Jones as Leroy Jessup
*Eileen Heckart as Hortense Daigle
*Evelyn Varden as Monica Breedlove
*William Hopper as Col. Kenneth Penmark
*Paul Fix as Richard Bravo
*Jesse White as Emory Wages
*Gage Clarke as Reginald 'Reggie' Tasker
*Joan Croydon as Claudia Fern (as Joan Croyden)
*Frank Cady as Henry Daigle
*Don C. Harvey as Guard in Hospital Corridor (uncredited)
Category:1956 films
Category:American films
Category:English-language films
Category:Films
Category:1950s films
Category:American psychological horror films
Category:Psychological horror films
Category:Horror films
Category:American psychological thriller films
Category:Psychological thriller films
Category:Black-and-white films
Category:Films based on American novels
Category:Films based on American horror novels
Category:Films based on novels
Category:Warner Bros. films
Category:Films produced by Mervyn LeRoy
Category:Films directed by Mervyn LeRoy