BAD SEED, THE (BD) [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1956
• Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Rhoda (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 child's moral blindness at work, is heartrendingly torn between mother love and grief for Rhoda's victims. From Maxwell Anderson's stage hit, The Bad Seed ticks like a time bomb under the skilful direction of Mervyn LeRoy, who cast several Broadway production originals, including Kelly (re-creating 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.
• Cast: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones, Eileen Heckart, Evelyn Varden, William Hopper, Paul Fix, Jesse White, Gage Clarke, Joan Croydon, Frank Cady, Frances Bavier, Violet Cane, Vivian Clermont, Shelley Fabares, Kathy Garver, Don C. Harvey, Edna Holland, Dayton Lummis, Natalie Masters, Patricia Morrow, Adele Taylor, John Truax, Mervyn LeRoy, John Lee Mahin, Maxwell Anderson
• Director: Mervyn LeRoy
• Runtime: 2:09
• Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Home Video
• Media Format: Movie