---
title: 'The Bad Seed (1956)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Mervyn LeRoy'
released: '1956-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 117
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Horror'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-bad-seed-1956'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048977/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Bad Seed (1956)

1956 · 117 min · Drama, Horror · United States


## Synopsis

The Bad Seed is a 1956 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones and Eileen Heckart, about an eight-year-old girl whose mother begins to suspect that she might be a psychopathic killer.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Mervyn LeRoy](https://cinepixo.com/people/mervyn-leroy)
- **Producer:** [Mervyn LeRoy](https://cinepixo.com/people/mervyn-leroy)
- **Screenplay:** [Maxwell Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/maxwell-anderson), [John Lee Mahin](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-lee-mahin)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Alex North](https://cinepixo.com/people/alex-north)
- **Director of Photography:** [Harold Rosson](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-rosson)
- **Editor:** [Warren Low](https://cinepixo.com/people/warren-low)

## Cast

- [Henry Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-jones)
- [Paul Fix](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-fix)
- [William Hopper](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-hopper)
- [Dayton Lummis](https://cinepixo.com/people/dayton-lummis)
- [Patty McCormack](https://cinepixo.com/people/patty-mccormack) as Rhoda Penmark
- [Nancy Kelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/nancy-kelly)
- [Evelyn Varden](https://cinepixo.com/people/evelyn-varden)
- [Eileen Heckart](https://cinepixo.com/people/eileen-heckart)
- [Jesse White](https://cinepixo.com/people/jesse-white)
- [Frank Cady](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-cady)

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