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The bad seed

Call Number

  • DVD MYSTERY/THRILLER (CEN)

Languages

In English, with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Performers

Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones, Eileen Heckart, Evelyn Varden.

Publication Information

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2004].

Physical Description

1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Rhoda Penmark is a well-mannered 8-year-old little lady--and an efficient, unfeeling killer. And what Rhoda wants, she ruthlessly gets. Her mother Christine, 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.

Notes

Title from disc surface.

Based upon the play "The bad seed" by Maxwell Anderson and the novel by William March.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1956.

Special features: commentary by Patty McCormack and Charles Busch ; making-of documentary "Enfant terrible : a conversation with Patty McCormack" ; theatrical trailer.

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