The Bad Seed

Drama, Horror, Thriller

Nancy Kelly	Christine Penmark
Patty McCormack	Rhoda 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

Director	Mervyn LeRoy
Producer	Mervyn LeRoy
Writer	William March; Maxwell Anderson

An ideal housewife begins to suspect her loving adolescent daughter may be a heartless killer.

Grade-schooler Rhoda Penmark (Patty McCormack) is sweet, smart … and inherently evil! After a school chum dies during a picnic, no one suspects Rhoda, except the janitor (Henry Jones) of her apartment building. But when Rhoda's mother, Christine (Nancy Kelly), finds out that her own mother is a cold-blooded killer, she begins to suspect Rhoda might be the victim of some faulty genetic wiring. Based on Maxwell Anderson's play.