She was one of the first children to be nominated for a "general category" Oscar (Best Supporting Actress, I believe.) Most children received Honorary Oscars, at most, in those days.
Patty McCormack turned out a performance like no other I've ever seen from a child actor. I saw this movie back in the 1960's on television and I couldn't get over the spectacular performance of this child. To this day I still think she is one of the very best actresses alive.
oooh19 some are, it’s rare but they are. There are videos about the youngest murderers that say a couple of 10 year old boys beat a 2 year old baby to death once too. Disturbing what some people can and will do even as children. But not all children can or would do this. Their emotions and physical capabilities would stop them, if the child’s emotional development wasn’t impaired by abuse or violence or neglect or sometimes some type of socio-emotional disorder that isn’t taken proper care of.
I've always loved the over-the-top theatricality of the performances in this film. The four leading actors, Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Eileen Heckart and Henry Jones all created their roles in the Broadway stage version, and I don't think they toned down their portrayals one iota for the film version. Their intense manner and melodramatic aesthetic lend a palpable air of hysteria to the movie, and make it absolutely riveting to watch. One of my favorites.
@@denisenoemyschizotypaldiso3755 Eileen Heckart is my favorite. It's like the director said 'OK, who thinks they can play a grief-stricken, alcoholic neighbor?' and Heckart said 'Take a look at this.'
@@jasonhurd4379 Her performance was powerful and positively heart-breaking. It was also vital that she be there. Too often, the victim is very hazy. We never meet Claude but we see and feel the terrible, lacerating grief of his mother. We also feel the timid embarrassment of Mr. D. But Eileen Heckart brought the victim's pain to life.
Showed this film to my two teen daughters and they loved it... 2:47 after watching it, they kept putting their arms around my neck saying, "OH, I've got the prettiest mother, I've got the nicest mother!" My kids have a sick sense of humor🤣😂🤣
@INTERNETWORK Well he has you putting the emphasis on the wrong words too... 'her' and 'she'. You can't see that is a little boy? It is a satanic "hit piece" on the character of the "Big Boss Angel" or Michael the Archangel. Satan is trying to "belittle" Michael by dressing him up like a girl and taunting him. "Leroi" means "The King"... as in the King of Snakes aka Satan. Satan has been doing that silliness to Michael for who knows how long. p8.storage.canalblog.com/89/76/137895/11315325.jpg
@INTERNETWORK But I understand what you said,the emphasis on the words is sometimes miss placed,but she is much better than the adult actors! The only reason I would watch this film is because of Patty.
My son and I watched it when it came on back in the 80s. He was laughing at the early part of the scene. He realized the seriousness of the movie and kept watching alongside me. I explain she was an evil child that inherited this evilness from her grandmother who was a killer. My son was surprised they could make such a movie like this. I believe it was the first psychological and suspenseful movie that was made at that time.
The actress that played Claude Dagle's mom had me crying like a baby. Rhoda's mom had me feeling tortured at the idea of being in her position. This is one of the best movies to ever hit the screen. Period.
This movie was taken from the Broadway play in which Eileen Heckart played the same role. I am sure the lines were kept as they were in the play where dialogue counts for so much. I actually liked the scene with Mrs Daigle. I felt it was a pivotal scene in the story.
I read in a biography about Eileen Heckart, written by one of her sons, that during the Broadway play one time Katherine Hepburn was sitting in the audience; after Eileen's performance Hepburn stood up and gave her a standing ovation!
@@kathleencaruanasmith8143 No, I see Mrs. Daigle as some kind of comedy relief. It's that Task ,or Tasker guy talking to Richard Bravo - that scene kinda drags in my opinion.
Patty McCormack and Nancy Kelley outstanding actresses in a brilliant movie Today you might see a movie with a flash of brilliance but The Bad Seed sustained it throughout.
You cannot remake some of the best "originals" not to mention this was on Broadway? Imagine the months and perhaps years it was on Broadway these actors had so much experience they refined their skillful crafts to top it all in the movie, "The Bad Seed."
I love the emotional impact the film made for me when I first watched The Bad Seed as a child, from Nancy Kelly being the distraught mother learning her daughter murdered with no remorse, to Patty McCormack as Rhoda, the charming and manipulative child that displayed no emotion to the people she harmed to get her way.
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IIRC, Rhoda said something like,"I won't kill People who don't have anything I want...." She only killed Leroy because he kept talking about the Police and executing her. He would have survived if he kept his mouth shut. I remember a Bad Seed Fan saying something like,"Rhoda's Killings were for stupid things for the most part, but killing Leroy is something she had to do because it seemed like he was going to turn her into the police, and don't forget, he actually saw the evidence that she killed Claude with her shoes. Leroy needed to go or he definitely would have turned her in...
Patty McCormack was a Bad Seed in 1954 as Rhoda.... but she went on to play a Dr. Martin/ a Psychiatrist in the 2018 version of the Bad Seed. My most favorite is the 1954 version. Newer versions of movies just don’t have it!
I recall seeing this film when I was 12, in 1970. It chilled me to the bone. The actress that played that little girl was just amazing. On a pare with the girl that played Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird.
I thought the same thing. I think a real psychopathic child would want to take it from the winner simply for the attention it brought the owner...the pride, but no, she had to hide it after she took it. It was the envy of another...psychologists discuss this today. It’s envy that drives a ton of awful narcissistic and psychopathic behavior. And a need to have power and control over another.
@@redbird8867 She knows this is something, she must keep it a secret from others, like the penmanship medal; instead of having it on display, its hidden in the drawer's linen.
Psychopaths have a clear understanding that certain actions have consequences. So they know to hide these actions and how to act to certain things like they are supposed to. What they lack is the WHY these certain actions are bad. Rhoda views killing these people as a perfectly resonable ends to a means when she wants something. Also, she doesn't kill you because she doesn't like you, she kills you as a means of getting something or self preservation. She did not kill Leroy because he harassed her, she killed him for self preservation.
maria koby oh absolutely !! I love the way she switches all of a sudden and can go from crying to manipulating her mum lol She's like a robot her mind's always working away
Such an amazing story- just re-watched it for the first time in years last night and it was even better than before. Such a great study of psychology, and such superior acting- everyone in this movie deserved an award for their performances. I'm reading the book now; even though I already know the ending (which is different from the film) I love it. :D
Karla Smith I can't believe Rhoda thought her mother woukd have fallen for that. Rhoda was immensely nervous and giving her mother a frozen, scared smile. It was clear that Rhoda was doing something shady.
no, the orphan's storyline is based on a real life story of a woman that actually had that disease that made her look like a child when she was not and she did some horrible things
xWickedWitchOfTheWestx they said in the bonus features on the dvd that they took inspiration from this film and they also discussed other films about evil children.
@@courtneymichelle5746 this is what ruined orphan for me what i mean is i was expecting movie about psycho child then they revealed she was adult psycho adults is nothing unusual
You know, maybe if Rhoda hadn't been screaming like a maniac and being so overly protective of the bag, maybe her Mom wouldn't have been so suspicious....
She was caught the minute she tip toed into the kitchen. At that point the mother had found out about her true origins and no matter how Rhoda came off, as soon as she looked into the bag she was caught.
According to the novel, all that time Christine never suspected Rhode of anything, it was until she found that medal, she became suspicious of Rhoda from that moment on. I kinda believe, Rhoda is pretending to love her parents and that rich grandpa; until she reaches 18, then it'll be time to plan their "accidents". She wants that big pile of money all to herself.
@@bobbyfrancis8957 She may not have realized that Rhoda actually killed Claude, but I think by that point she had a pretty clear idea of Rhoda's overall malevolent nature. One of Rhoda's most telling lines, IMO, is her response to Mrs. Daigle's grief at losing Claude. "If she wants a boy so much, why doesn't she go to the orphans' home and adopt one?" It really showed that Rhoda had no concept of the idea of love and human bonding and attachment - the hallmark characteristic of a sociopath, according to a book I read. Sociopaths can do anything because they can't truly care about others in a human, meaningful way.
Does anyone remember the line about the basket full of kisses and the basket full of hugs? I thought she said something like 'oh mother I'll give you a basket full of hugs' or flowers or something like that?
I saw this movie years ago and just now finished watching it again. dude, this little girl is crazy with a capital CRAZY!!! she did her part really well though! at the end where she tells her daddy that her and Monica were going to sun bathe on top of the roof, I was like yep, Monica's next.
I've seen "The Bad Seed" several times. TCM was showing it again the other day, and I noticed something I never caught the first dozens of times I've seen it: Rhoda was plotting to kill Aunt Monica!!! I was like, Dang!!, I can't believe I kept missing that part all these years!!
Monica had said the wrong thing, that she would let her have her lovebird after she died. Rhoda shouldn't be allowed to have any pets at all,the novel said her first victim was a pet dog ...
I guess, even after Christine's attempted suicide, the movie saying Rhoda hasn't changed one inch, Rhoda has even called her "dear, sweet Aunt Monica"...
Lindsay Lohan's acting as Annie and Hallie in The Parent Trap was phenomenal too. She was 11 or 12. Also, Amandla Sternberg was phenomenal as Young Cateleya in Columbiana and Rue in The Hunger Games. She was around 12 and 13. Isabelle Furhman as Esther in Orphan and Clove from The Hunger Games was phenomenal too. She was 12 and 15. Fun fact, both Isabelle and Amandla played in The Hunger Games. 😀
i would love to put this play on at our local community theater. I think if you had the right cast and set it in the 1950's without appearing campy, you would have a success. Plus the plays ending packs a more powerful punch. Too bad they couldn't end the movie the same way.
The play's ending wasn't "more powerful" just darker. If you prefer the play to the film it says you're like the murderer in Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" somebody who believes "If there was no God anything would be possible!" which is a delusional fantasy that a world where evil has no consequences for the evildoer would be empowering. The reality of course is that if murder was legal it wouldn't merely be legal for you to murder those you hate but for those by whom you are hated to murder you and there would be a lot more hate and murder around for everybody to become victims of. Morality exists to protect our own self-interests in an orderly predictable culture from the horrors that become more probable without it. When this film was made most people didn't lock their doors at night and there was no global AIDS epidemic over 25 million have died in, most marriages didn't end in divorce and vastly fewer single mothers were struggling to survive in crime infested urban ghettos being terrorized by rival drug gangs and the cost of living was ridiculously lower for everybody. Dark Ages may empower some of their survivors but the odds of anybody surviving a Dark Age are much lower than surviving in the brighter world of the Rule of Law. Death is not empowering but the loss of all power to do anything at all.
New York Times, Screen: 'The Bad Seed'; Members of Broadway Cast Are Starred, By Bosley Crowther, September 13, 1956-SINCE "The Bad Seed" has been transplanted from stage to screen with the principal players of its original cast intact and with the line of its story faithfully followed, except at the very end, you might think the motion picture version would have as much shattering impact as the play-or even more, considering the opportunity for the camera to embrace a wider scene. But, by some rather curious disillusion, which probably occurs as a consequence of looking too closely at its basically melodramatic characters, this film about the monstrous mortal mischief that is done by an 8-year-old girl tends to appear synthetic. And at time it is downright droll. This is not to say that the problem which is posed on the Astor Theatre's screen lacks a peculiar fascination. The prospect of a psychopathic child who kills two people during the time span of the picture and is revealed to have killed an old lady before it begins is extraordinarily different and morbidly intriguing, to say the least. What is going to happen to this youngster plagues the curiosity throughout the film. And certainly at the outset of proceedings, it is startling and chilling to be informed, by slow stages, that this seemingly perfect youngster has caused the drowning of a boy in her class at school. This horrifying information is got across with the effect of a slow-fused bomb. But from this point on the behavior of virtually everyone in the film becomes so fantastically abnormal that it grows ridiculous and grotesque. Little Patty McCormack, who plays the murderer, not only acts with incredible sang-froid but she also postures with such calculation that it is hard to see how anyone could mistake her show of innocence for a fraud. Furthermore, little Miss McCormack looks a very mature 8-year-old. Take those manicured pig-tails off her and she could stand beside Marilyn Monroe. At the same time, Nancy Kelly makes the mother of this child so saturnine and so foolishly fatalistic that her outbursts of frenzy toward the end, when little darling coolly compounds her murders, deprive her of the sympathy she should have. This reviewer had the inhuman feeling that this poor woman oddly got what she deserved. As for Eileen Heckart's performance as the grief-torn mother of the boy who is drowned, it is badly confused by broad explosions of comical drunkenness, and Evelyn Varden plays a nosy neighbor as if she were laboring to get laughs. Henry Jones as a dim-witted janitor and Joan Croydon as the principal of the girl's school play their parts so broadly or blandly that they are close to burlesque. Mervyn LeRoy, who produced and directed, has lost a great deal of the bite of the play. He has done it in a style of presentation that is ostentatious and often insincere. Also, he and John Lee Mahin, the script writer, have changed the end so that it lacks the withering irony of the original. The attitude toward the whole thing is betrayed in a post-script, calling the actors on for bows. Miss Kelly spanks Miss McCormack for a gagged-up fadeout. Anything for a howl! THE BAD SEED, screen play by John Lee Mahin, based on the play by Maxwell Anderson, from the novel by William March; directed and produced by Mervyn LeRoy for Warner Brothers. At the Astor. Christine . . . . . Nancy Kelly; Rhoda . . . . . Patty McCormack; LeRoy . . . . . Henry Jones; Mrs. Daigle . . . . . Eileen Heckart; Monica . . . . . Evelyn Varden; Kenneth . . . . . William Hopper; Bravo . . . . . Paul Fix; Emory . . . . . Jesse White; Tasker . . . . . Gage Clarke; Miss Fern . . . . . Joan Croydon; Mr. Daigle . . . . . Frank Cady
My girlfriend throws the exact same temper tantrums when she flies off the handle. Whenever my mom got mad my brother would say "I got the prettiest mother".
She is crazy. I know that mother feel sick to birth such a child with so much evil in her. 2017 remake Secrets and Lies with Ryan Phillippe. The little girl kill the little Boy with a flashlight. Scary
I don't get why Rhoda attempted to burn the shoes in the daytime when Christine was awake. She should have waited until night when Christine was asleep to attempt to burn the shoes...
Amazing that she did this role over 320 times on Broadway at what is now the Richard Rodgers Theater. Then she did the movie. So her movie performance had been honed to a knifes edge.
Seeing this while a child has made a lifetime imprint...so many lessons. With any degree of self restraint...Roda displayed a clear "No-no" way to be...
Trivial fact: Patty McCormack (Rhoda Penmark) will costar in the upcoming Lifetime remake of this film as the psychiatrist who examines the psycho girl
I’ve actually witnessed this type of cold manipulation...a teen girl was able to turn on and off emotions at will to manipulate people. It was chilling....like being in the presence of a dangerous reptile.
