The Bad Seed
(1956)
Director:
Mervyn LeRoy
Writer:
John Lee Mahin, Maxwell Anderson, William March
Cast:
Patty McCormack, Nancy Kelly, Henry Jones
Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.