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Kenneth and Christine Penmark dote on their eight-year-old daughter Rhoda. They say their farewells to Kenneth before he leaves on military duty. The Penmarks’ neighbor and landlord, Monica Breedlove, comes in with presents for Rhoda—a pair of sunglasses and a locket. Rhoda, pristine and proper in her pinafore dress and long, blonde pigtails, thanks Monica for the gifts. She dances in tap shoes and tells Monica about a penmanship competition that Rhoda lost to her schoolmate, Claude Daigle; Monica speaks of it as a childish disappointment, but Rhoda's face darkens with fury. Christine and Rhoda leave for the school picnic at a nearby lake.

Later, Christine is having lunch with Monica and friends when they hear a radio report that a child has drowned in the lake where Rhoda's school was having their picnic. Christine worries that the drowned child could be her daughter, but a follow-up report identifies the victim as the same Claude who had won the penmanship medal. Relieved that Rhoda is alive, Christine worries that her daughter might be traumatized by seeing the boy’s corpse. When Rhoda returns home, however, she is unfazed by the incident and goes about her daily activities.

Rhoda's teacher, Mrs. Fern, visits Christine, revealing that Rhoda was apparently the last person to see Claude alive and that she was seen grabbing at Claude's medal. Mrs. Fern alludes to the fact that Rhoda might have had some connection to the boy's death, but stops short of actually accusing her of it, although the teacher adds that Rhoda would not be welcome at school the following year. As the two women continue to talk, Mr. and Mrs. Daigle barge into Christine’s living room. Claude's mother is both distraught and obviously drunk. She accuses Rhoda's teacher of knowing something that she is not telling. Mr. Daigle steps in, apologizing for the scene.

When Christine later finds the penmanship medal in Rhoda's room, she demands an explanation. Rhoda lies that Claude let her have the medal after she won a bet. Soon Christine's father arrives for a visit. Long haunted by distant and confusing memories about her own childhood, Christine talks with her father, who finally reveals that he is not her biological parent, that she was adopted by him and his wife. Already upset by this revelation, Christine is then horrified to learn that she is actually the daughter of a notorious serial killer. She now worries that her own origin is the cause of Rhoda's sociopathy, and that Rhoda's behavior is genetic, not subject to influence or reversal by good parenting or a wholesome environment.

Christine catches Rhoda trying to dispose of her tap shoes in the incinerator and realizes that Rhoda must have hit Claude with the shoes, which explains the shape of bruises found on the dead boy’s forehead and hands. A tearful Rhoda admits that she killed the boy to get the medal and also confirms Christine's suspicion that she murdered a neighbor lady when they lived in Wichita to obtain a trifle the elderly woman had promised Rhoda upon her death. Christine orders Rhoda to burn the shoes in the incinerator.

The next day, as Rhoda is playing in the garden, the caretaker, LeRoy, teasingly tells her that he believes she killed Claude by striking him with her shoes and that he would tell the police, sending her to the electric chair. After Rhoda angrily tells him she burned her shoes, Leroy, hoping to continue what he erroneously believes to be a mere joke, opens the incinerator and finds the remains of the shoes. A drunk Mrs. Daigle returns to see Christine and asks to speak with Rhoda, but Monica takes the girl away before she can answer any questions. Mrs. Daigle tells Christine that she believes Rhoda knows what happened to her son.

Monica gives Christine vitamins and sleeping pills to help her feel better. Meanwhile, realizing that LeRoy knows she really did kill Claude, Rhoda sets his bedding ablaze in the basement. LeRoy breaks free from the basement and runs into the yard, still aflame, ultimately burning to death. From the apartment window, Christine and Monica see him die, which makes Christine hysterical. That night, a strangely calm Christine tells Rhoda that she dropped the medal into the lake, and then gives her daughter a lethal dose of sleeping pills, telling her they are new vitamins. She attempts to kill herself with a gunshot to the head. However, the gunshot alerts the neighbors. Rhoda and Christine are found and taken to a hospital. They both survive, though Christine is in a coma.

Rhoda's father brings her home from the hospital and puts her to bed, but during a thunderstorm in the middle of the night, Rhoda puts on her rain gear and sneaks out of the apartment. Her father is awakened by a call from the hospital, where Christine has regained consciousness. She begs her husband for forgiveness and tells him she loves him. Meanwhile, walking through the heavy rain, Rhoda finally arrives at the lake and walks out onto the pier, determined to retrieve the penmanship medal. She finds a long metal pole with a fishnet, and she uses it to probe the surrounding water. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning strikes Rhoda, killing her instantly and putting an end to her evil.

The movie then has a curtain call of all the main cast. After Nancy Kelly is called, she walks over to the couch where Patty McCormack is sitting. She puts McCormack over her lap and proceeds to spank her over her dress while McCormack repeatedly screams “No!” as both laugh.

• Nancy Kelly as Christine Penmark
• Patty McCormack as Rhoda Penmark
• Henry Jones as LeRoy Jessup
• Eileen Heckart as Hortense Daigle
• Evelyn Varden as Monica Breedlove
• William Hopper as Col. Kenneth Penmark
• Paul Fix as Richard Bravo
• Jesse White as Emory Wages
• Gage Clarke as Reginald 'Reggie' Tasker
• Joan Croydon as Claudia Fern (as Joan Croyden)
• Frank Cady as Henry Daigle
• Don C. Harvey as Guard in Hospital Corridor (uncredited)

At the end of the film, the cast is introduced in a theatrical-style curtain call. After her credit is read, Nancy Kelly puts Patty McCormack over her knee and gives her a spanking. Both are visibly laughing, perhaps to remind an unnerved audience that the story they have seen is fictional. The spanking continues as the film fades out; a screen card then requests that the audience not divulge the climax.

Although the novel and play had the mother dying and the evil child surviving, the Motion Picture Production Code did not allow for "crime to pay." The ending of the film thus has it the other way around, with Christine's life being saved and Rhoda being struck down by lightning. In another move to appease the censors, Warner Bros. added an "adults only" tag to the film's advertising.

The Bad Seed was one of the biggest hits of 1956 for Warner Bros., earning the company $4.1 million in theatrical rentals domestically against a $1 million budget. The film was also one of the year's top 20 at the box office in the United States and among the ten most popular box-office draws in Britain in 1956.

The film received favorable reviews from critics and film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 68%, based on 25 reviews, with a rating average of 7.3/10.

Academy Awards

Nominations

• Best Actress: Nancy Kelly
• Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Eileen Heckart
• Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Patty McCormack
• Best Cinematography (Black-and-White): Harold Rosson

Golden Globes

Nominations

• Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture: Patty McCormack
• Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture: Eileen Heckart (Won)

Other honors

The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:

• 2001: AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills – Nominated

In 1995, McCormack starred in the low budget indie film Mommy in which she played a psychopathic mother. Critics hailed her performance and deemed the film as an "unofficial sequel".

The band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is named after the novel, play, and film.

The 1993 film The Good Son is partly inspired by The Bad Seed.

The Bad Seed was remade for television in 1985, adapted by George Eckstein and directed by Paul Wendkos. It starred Carrie Welles, Blair Brown, Lynn Redgrave, David Carradine, Richard Kiley, and Chad Allen. This version uses the original ending of the March novel and its subsequent stage production. This remake was panned by critics and poorly received by its television audience.

In June 2015, it was announced that Lifetime would remake The Bad Seed. In December 2017, Deadline.com reported that Rob Lowe was to direct and star in the remake with Mckenna Grace, Sarah Dugdale, Marci T. House, Lorne Cardinal, Chris Shields, Cara Buono, and a special appearance by Patty McCormack as Dr. March. The film aired in September 2018.

• List of American films of 1956