
The Bad Seed is a movie directed by Mervyn LeRoy in 1956 and based on the play Bad Seed by Maxwell Anderson, first published in 1956. The movie features Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones, Eileen Heckart, Evelyn Varden, William Hopper, and others.
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Book by William March
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Storyline
A single mother, adopted herself as a small child, discovers the horrifying truth that within her seemingly angelic young daughter beats the heart of a cold-blooded serial murderer… even as she learns that her own mother killed everyone else in her family. Now as more people die, one woman must make a terrible decision about the daughter she loves and desperately wants to protect.
Movie vs Book

Year
1956
Minutes
129
Movie Rate
7.50
Source: IMDb

Year
1956
Pages
84
Book Rate
7.92
S: Goodreads
Book
Bad Seed
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User polls & recommendations
“The biggest challenge of adapting the book was trying to make the inner lives of the characters legible through their outward actions.”
SALLY ROONEY (Writer)
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