The Bad Seed (1956)

19562h 09mdir. Mervyn LeRoyUnited Statesfilm noirdrama film

With Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones, Eileen Heckart, William Hopper, Jesse White, Evelyn Varden, Paul Fix

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy

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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.

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