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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790792101
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790792109
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 10, 2004
Running Time: 129 minutes
Sales Rank: 4967
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 12, 1956
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
'A basket full of kisses for a basket full of hugs.' Those are chilling words, at least when uttered by that ice princess, Patty McCormack. As Rhoda Penmark, she is as pretty as a porcelain doll but drips venom with each curtsey and polite response. Little Rhoda's mother is terrified she has passed on her own mother's corruption. Oops, turns out she's right. This passes the test of time, as it still gets under your skin. The character development is tight and the story very involving. Not even Freddy Krueger had the ability to scare like tiny McCormack, looking just like a little adult while she literally beats out the competition for a penmanship award. However, director Mervyn LeRoy's hands were tied over the ending, which was changed from the source material--Maxwell Anderson's hit Broadway play. A supposedly more appropriate, and moral, ending was demanded by the studio. This was remade (badly) in 1985. --Rochelle O'Gorman
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Humorous Reply to "Easy-Out Ending" comments
My Mom, uncle and I absolutly love the ending! We don't see it as "moralistic" or sunday-school, or "cheesy"!! To us it is absolutly halarious!!! We love the OVER-THE-TOP, DRAMATIC ending!! In fact there are many funny moments like "...blue ones for little boys and PINK ones for little girls!", the taunting is halarious! The obvious water-from-the-hose on her shoes as Rhoda is walking out of the apartment is another example where the audience may find it delightfully fulfilling and funny. And what ... Read More
Rating:  - What a review SHOULD look like (without the spoilers)
The Bad Seed is one of my all-time favorite movies. It's creepy, suspensful and unpredictable (unless you read the other reviews on here, then you'll know every single detail of the movie and not ever have seen it). It leaves a chill running down your spine and stays with you long after you have watched it. The acting may have been a little too much (and scenes "laughable" and "unbelievable" as other "critics" put it) but we're talking about a movie that was made in the 1950's. There were no special ... Read More
Rating: - "Rhoda, About to Exploda"
The little girl, Rhoda was about my age in 1956. I was not allowed to see the movie at the time it came out, but I saw it a few years later--Chilling. Heartbreaking and chilling--what a heartbreak for the poor mother. There is a sympathy for the little girl, who was apparently born without any conscience. She was born that way and did not ask to be born. She was brought into the world by others. She was immune to any instruction of right or wrong, in any regard. Perhaps you have known someone like ... Read More
Rating: - So very Bad
This movie always shocks me with its intense subject matter. I am always amazed that this was filmed in 1956.
This story is about a little girl, Rhoda, who seems perfect. But this angel is surrounded by the unfortunate incidents that kill those around her. Her mother, Christine, in all her Donna Reed-esque perfection feels something is amiss and explores her own psyche to find the answers to her uneasy feelings. Is Rhoda perfect? Or is she perfectly evil?
It was a stage ... Read More
Rating: - Bad Seed
The Bad Seed was excellent to watch and was received in excellent condition. My daughter, who is 28, had never seen or heard of The Bad Seed. We watched it together and she absolutely loved it!
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