Rhoda Penmark (Patty McCormack) is a well-mannered 8-year-old little lady - and an efficient, unfeeling killer. And in this spellbinding chronicle of evil, whatever Rhoda wants, she ruthlessly gets. Her mother Christine (Nancy Kelly), reluctantly made to see her offspring's moral blindness at work, is heartrendingly torn between the love for the child she bore and grief for Rhoda's victims.

From Maxwell Anderson's stage hit, 'The Bad Seed' ticks like a time bomb under the skillful direction of Mervyn LeRoy, who cast several Broadway production originals, including Kelly (recreating the role that won her a Tony), McCormack and Eileen Heckart. Their harrowing performances captured three of this suspenseful movie's four Academy Award nominations - and make this thriller one of the great ones.

Un véritable monstre se cache derrière le visage angélique de Rhoda Penmark, petite fille bien élevée de 8 ans. Dans cet envoûtant portrait d'un être démoniaque, Rhoda arrive toujours à ses fins, ne faisant montre d'aucune sensibilité. Sa mère Christine assiste bien malgré elle aux agissements meurtriers de son enfant, déchirée entre l'amour qu'elle éprouve pour lui et la compassion qu'elle ressent à l'égard des victimes de celui-ci...

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Director	Mervyn Leroy
Actor	Patty Mccormack, Nancy Kelly, Henry Jones, Eileen Heckart
Label	Warner Home Video

Genre	Horror Thriller
Content	DVD
FSK / age rating	from age 18
Publication date	10.08.2004
Edition	b/w
Audio	English (Mono)
Subtitles	English, French, Spanish
Extras	Documentations, Commentary
Length	129 Minutes
Year of production	1956
Original title	The Bad Seed
Version	US Version
Region code	1

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