THE BAD SEED - GOD DON'T LIKE UGLY

[@itgetseasierlessitry]

56 years on, and Patricia McCormacks portrayal of Rhoda remains, for me, the most chilling performance I have seen by a child actor.

[@LadyVader33]

itgetseasierlessitry she depicts the psychiatrist in the 2018 remake

[@DGsKattKatt]

Yeah she did that!!!❤

[@noneyabidniss4763]

100% I'm only 35 but this have always been my favorite movie. Flowers in the Attic being a close second.

[@joannehack7588]

Absolutely,positively, without the shadow of a doubt, the most remembered movie of my childhood

[@elizabethr4107]

💯💯💯

[@PeekaPeep]

My father told me years ago that when he saw this in theaters and that lightning strike scene came up, people in their seats immediately got up and cheered their asses off (LOL)!!! XD

[@drivinsouth651]

Sadistic people. :'(

[@drivinsouth651]

@Dora Winifred Not a little kid. " got up and cheered" to a child getting struck by lightning is going too far. We beat the Germans in WWII, yay. I wouldn`t cheer at that either. “The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited

[@TheKoalat53]

@@drivinsouth651 They were NOT cheering about the actress... they were cheering about the character. If you can't recognize the difference, then you don't need to be watching movies.

[@behindmyblueeyes99]

@@drivinsouth651 I beg your pardon, but are you from USSR to say that you beated the Germans in WWII?...

[@drivinsouth651]

@@TheKoalat53 That "character" was a little girl, who through no fault of her own, was born retarded (Sadistic and evil; without compassion or empathy) that is too exceedingly sad for my tastes and then when she is killed, I am still too sad to cheer about her destruction. What was the point of any of it? Why did God do this to her? How can you cheer at the death of anyone? Do you know what Adolf Hitler or Charles Manson`s childhoods were like? A nightmare beyond your comprehension, I hope! I am glad they`re dead, but I feel cheering at their death makes me little to no better than them.

[@TheVanishing87]

I love how even God gets tired of the little spoiled brat at the end and shocks her.

[@singalingalongaling]

She reminds me of Henry Evans and Mikey Holt.

[@probunnysaavy7589]

Me too! Bad kids!

[@Mstiah30]

Exactly

[@fanofeverything]

Back in those days, it was illegal in Hollywood to let bad guys get away with their crimes. Not a joke, this was an actual rule. The novel's ending is different, she survives.

[@ronaldshank7589]

.....and it's a Lethal shock, too! Little Miss Rhonda had her evil little ole heart so set on getting that Gold item out of the water, that she completely overlooked the fact that she was, with that wooden net in her hand, making herself the perfect target for a lightning strike. And... wouldn't you know it? Sure enough..... Blammmmm.!!! A towering shot of lightning blasted it's way through Rhoda's young little body, killing her on the spot! I guess that even The Almighty had had enough out of her!

[@alphaomega4425]

She got the electric chair after all, just like Leroy said she would.

Dang for real? Lol

[@lemuelhenry837]

Yep God's electric chair

[@lynfoster2484]

I can’t remember the exact details, but I read that the code in Hollywood used to require that murderers “get their due”, or the movie has to end as if it were a dream. Something like that. I’m too lazy to look it up, LOL! There’s an old Edward G. Robinson movie about him becoming a murderer, and it ends as his dream. Like the tv show Dallas cleared a whole season as Bobby’s dream. 🙄 No wonder my grandparents were horrified at the violence and nudity in movies once those codes were lifted. 😂

[@ronaldshank7589]

@@lemuelhenry837 You could say that she ended up "Riding the Lightning"!

[@drivinsouth651]

@@ronaldshank7589 Ride the Lightning Metallica Guilty as charged But damn it, it ain't right There's someone else controlling me Death in the air Strapped in the electric chair This can't be happening to me Who made you God to say "I'll take your life from you" Flash before my eyes Now it's time to die Burning in my brain I can feel the flame Wait for the sign To flick the switch of death It's the beginning of the end Sweat, chilling cold As I watch death unfold Unconsciousness my only friend My fingers gripped with fear What I am doing here? Flash before my eyes Now it's time to die Burning in my brain I can feel the flame Someone help me Oh please, God, help me They are trying to take it all away I don't want to die Someone help me Oh please God help me They are trying to take it all away I don't want to die Time moving slow The minutes seem like hours The final curtain call I see How true is this? Just get it over with If this is true, just let it be Wakened by the horrid scream Freed from the frightening dream Flash before my eyes Now it's time to die Burning in my brain I can feel the flame Source: LyricFind Songwriters: Clifford Lee Burton / Dave Mustaine / James Alan Hetfield / Lars Ulrich Ride the Lightning lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc

[@Tadaia]

Mama just tried to blow her brains out but Rhoda was still gonna get that penmanship medal. LOL. Loved this ending.

[@fannynoise]

+Tadaia A VERY satisfying ending! The only great shocker ending to top this one would be in "The Good Son", where Macauley Culkin plays an evil child responsible for multiple deaths and horrible "accidents", and "gets his" in the end.

[@Tadaia]

+fannynoise saw that years ago when it was released. Excellent film.

[@MrFalconford]

don't ever hold a metal fish net on a pier during a lighting storm, yup that's what I learned

[@singalingalongaling]

Tadaia What does “blow her brains out” mean?

[@colleen4ever]

@@MrFalconford And behave yourself or God WILL get you in the end.

[@EthalaRide]

I've never been happier at a child's death in a movie. I watched this movie with my mom and when that one woman said "You still have Rhoda." I literally screamed at the TV "Oh, *COME ON*! No!" but then she bites it in the end and Christine is still alive and oh I LOVE this movie because of that. That was one of the most satisfying endings to a movie like that that I've seen.

[@ronaldshank7589]

That lightning strike was something that horrified me! But-She brought her own death upon her own self. First, by murdering Little Claude Daigle, then by going back to look for, I'm guessing, that Gold Medallion...or did she already have it? Either way, she got a shocking experience out of it all. Too bad she can't come back from the dead to tell us about it!

[@DGsKattKatt]

​@@ronaldshank7589 I heard the trustee from Green Mile when I read 'shocking experience '🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@maxotaurus5140]

Of course! Evil repaid! But canon is Rhoda survived. The movie was made and censors said Rhoda can not get away with it (as she did in book and play). So they tacked on ending. I think of it as the story was actually written and movie unmodified - Rhoda lives and mom died.

[@ronaldshank7589]

It was actually somewhat expected...the lightning strike, I mean. Little Miss Rhoda just thought she could get away with murder. The Almighty, up above, though, had different plans for her. Wow! Witnessing the sudden blast of lightning, and knowing that Rhoda was killed by it, wow... In a way, I was thinking that something like that might happen, but when it does, it definitely sends shock, fear, and dread, right through your body! For the moment, you're stunned into silence. Then, you realize the terror that you've just experienced, in seeing that lethal blast of lightning hit Rhoda like the proverbial ton of bricks! Then... it's all over.....

[@ianbrewer4843]

​@@maxotaurus5140 yes, in the book she lived,

[@Christrulesall2]

Mom:You have some new vitamins to take tonight. Rhoda: Really? What are they called? Mom: Ambien extra extended release.

[@elainec2577]

LoL

[@raymondgarafano8604]

Well done, lightning, God's way of getting rid of EVIL.

[@singalingalongaling]

Amen!

[@raymondgarafano8604]

@@singalingalongaling looks like she got smote and SMOKED!

[@raymondgarafano8604]

@@singalingalongaling I just saw the whole play, Sad that the bitch'es mom had a nervous breakdown? and that that kid got away with it and Mom shot herself. I was hoping the kid would have been turned into a crispy critter as she deserved to be. Yes I know it was a movie/play but it depicts real evil that does exist.

[@diamondtiara84]

Patty McCormack played the child sociopath to perfection; I hope she got an award for this. Just her voice when she told Leroy to "give me back my shoes" was enough to give you chills.

[@fleurmartin]

She didn't get an award. But I think she did for the Broadway version. Or at least the play itself or the mom won.

[@ghoststarstalk]

The Oscar's must've been rigged back then too for McCormick to not get Best Child Actress in a lead role. Many years later, Tatum O'Neil achieved just that for her role in Paper Moon.

[@markxxx21]

Patty was nominated for Best Supporting Actress but lost to Dorothy Malone for Written on the Wind. Patty had the disadvantage in that Eileen Heckart was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Mrs Daigle in the same movie, which likely split the vote.

[@joannekeryger7909]

I remember in the '50s, as a young child watching "The Bad Seed" with my mom (on an old b/w TV). I had asked my mom "What's wrong with her?" My mom replied, "She's a Bad Seed." The movie scared the crap out of me. Not long after, my mom gave me a gift of a "mustard seed" necklace, and I thought to myself "this is the seed (lol) but I'M not bad.'' After all these years and this movie still echoes in my head.

[@jaelyvelazquez8201]

LOL!

[@RivieraByBuick]

wow. u not young

[@m.e.d.7997]

Honestly, I am not sure this is a movie for kids.

[@Jonathon1S]

When I was 12 years premiered on television for the first time. My parents were concerned about me watching it, but allowed it, because they were going to watch it with me. Well, after watching it, it actually put me kind of shock. I had an ear ache and my mother told me to get my medicine from her bedroom. By the time I came back from my parents bedroom with my medicine, the living room lights were off and there was only a light from the kitchen. I walked down the into the living room, only to be scared by my mother which had a ton of cold cream on her face and said "Boo!". My dad was also in on the joke. As I look back on that memory, I felt it was their way of telling me not to life too seriously. Even though they scared the hell out of me. Pun intended.

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

If you really saw the movie "The Bad Seed" - first of all, did you see it on KHJ-TV , Ch, 9, like I did, I saw it in the early 1960s, they used to show the ONLY scene when Mrs. Daigle was completely sober, at home. She's in the kitchen, Claude has his back to the camera, Hortense is kneeling to him, pinning the medal to his shirt, smiling up at him and hugging him, I think a cleaning woman walks by; it was about - 1965? This scene was cut out, ever since. For a while longer, the other, smaller scene was shown, before it was cut out, permanently. At the picnic, after Christine talked to Miss Fern, it used to show Rhoda and Claude, at a distance, she says something to him and he suddenly runs away, she goes after him, THAT'S IT, scene over. The rest is what you see in the movie today. I never saw a scene of her ever "touching"him. Now, Jo Anne, PLEASE tell me, you saw it in the 50s - do you remember these scenes AT ALL? You should be able to know them in a clearer way than me, what was Hortense saying to Claude?... does anyone out there remember these missing scenes?

[@yourkeysre]

That lightning strike was the best part ever. It stayed on my mind for 50 years.

[@josephhernandez1885]

"God bitchslapped the evil right to the fiery depths of hellsa"- Cartman from South Park

[@raymondgarafano8604]

but do ya think she got her comeuppance? her evil ways literally got smoked out. It does make me wonder though, was she ever really punished or was she a spoiled brat and a good actor? Either way it did not end well for her. I do think had she had some idea of water and lightning, she may have been around a while longer and possibly occupy the state's electric chair.

[@JanMike9]

I replayed the ending about 15 times, laughing harder each time. This movie is pure camp, and can picture Gilda Radner spoofing McCormack so clearly. Rewatched it with my sisters, and they laughed as hard as I did at the ending. Good fun!

[@zerogullibility]

A mother will always love her child, even if that child is pure evil.

[@drivinsouth651]

I think even "The Bad Seed" would have loved her kids no matter what, also. She didn`t kill her parents.... yet.

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

@@drivinsouth651 Not until she's at least 18, and kill off that rich grandpa while she's at it. Have you read the novel? Rhoda was in a school, before the Fern school, stealing money from other kids lockers.

[@dr.strangebat9397]

Like Eric Cartman's mom?

[@kellyyork3898]

Most psychopathic mothers are completely unconcerned with motherhood and simply use their children, discarding them when the child/children no longer serve their purposes.

[@DD-hy1nl]

This is a great movie, they made two new remakes of this movie and both are not as good as this original movie..No one played the Bad Seed little girl better than a young Patty Mccormack, she was perfect! And love that Leroy, can't get any better at knowing how Rhoda thinks..Great ending as well, yes God don't like evil..He will strike and that He did!

[@itswariotime7543]

Seriously, this is a bad ending, the girl dies being hit by lightning from nowhere, so random

[@suspendedTeacher]

This was probably a contrived ending required by the Hays Code. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode

[@sauravmehra4503]

@@itswariotime7543 well there was a thunderstorm how can it be random?And even though she is a sociopath & psychopath she is still a 8yr old kid who is stupid enough to go out at such a time.And it makes perfect sense as that medal is what is wanted .It was the reason she killed the boy.And for her 8yr old mind it was the perfect time to sneek out.In the dark and in a thunderstorm... Even if someone doesn't believe in God it is still a logical enough!

[@MarySmith-lv3mo]

@@sauravmehra4503 I remember a Fan being HORRIFIED that Rhoda went out late at night in the pouring rain to get a damn medal. They said Rhoda looked possessed....

[@Disneyfan82]

@@itswariotime7543 it's not bad, it's justice for all those she murdered.

[@fannynoise]

Hollywood was still subject to the Hayes Code. Movies featuring villains had to resolve the conflict by punishing the villain. Evil was never allowed to triumph. Many story lines having the "bad guy" get away had to be altered to abide by "The Code". It wasn't all about foul language, nudity or sexual situations. Consequences for wicked actions were required. Allowing Rhoda to get away with murder without serious consequences would have been a breech of the Hayes Code. I love this ending!

[@suspendedTeacher]

I have just checked the Hayes Code. Here is a specific reference to Bad Seed. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode

[@ZukoHalliwell]

As far as I know, this ending is the *one good thing* that came from the Hays Code.

[@flowers4hunters]

Nicely put.

[@fleurmartin]

That sucks. I know the Hayes Code was responsible for the stupidity of old tv shows where married couples slept separately. Not realistic. I think she should have been institutionalized. More real.

[@leah-michelle5872]

Fun Fact: I read a while back that the main reason Rhoda was killed was because in those days there was a law that any character who killed in a movie had to be killed at some point in the movie.

[@singalingalongaling]

In the written play, Rhoda lives and is free to kill again. I thought they killed off Roda in the movie because they did not want a child to literally get away with murder.

[@markschildberg1667]

It was the Hays Office production code that demanded a criminal must pay for what they have done in a story. The code was abandoned in the Sixties.

[@spookym123]

Man, that ending. My favorite part when I was a kid!

[@andrewdouglass1427]

I haven't seen this in years, but I pulled up this montage so I could see the ending. That lightning bolt is incredibly satisfying.

[@allanmiller4972]

'The Bad Seed' = Pure Cinematic PERFECTION! 🥰

[@ronaldshank7589]

This movie is what I call a morbid masterpiece!

[@bdavis7981]

Saw this on TCM one day. I thought, 'where are they going with this, this is weird'. At the end, I couldn't stop laughing. That strike is just perfect.

[@Jonathon1S]

I thought when watching this movie, it was actually rather sad. I had a lot of sympathy towards the mother; and even though the mother was trying to kill the little girl with sleeping pills, she was doing it out of love and protection keeping her daughter from harm. I believe any secret like the little girl would drive anyone to madness. Actually at the very end the movie they introduced all the actors and the mother got to whip the little daughter's behind.

[@fleurmartin]

I like both Nancy Kelly and Patty McCormack. And I've seen Patty McCormack in different things she's done. In one movie, she showed so much genuine compassion for someone, that it was hard to believe it was her. Lol!

[@DGX24]

ZZAP! This ending is up there with the ending from The Mist. Pure gold.

[@steveneardley7541]

John Waters loves The Bad Seed, and was talking about it at one of his stand-up gigs. He said something about Patty McCormack, and a woman in the audience said, "That's not really true." "How do you know?" "Because I AM Patty McCormack."

[@thephantomoftheparadise5666]

Someone pissed Zeus off.

[@captbill279]

And then Zeus pissed off Rhoda, who floated away chasing him down in the cloud. Didn't you see that at the very end? You probably didn't notice that Rhoda is a BOY either did you. Or maybe you did know, being the "Phantom of Paradise". Well, "Rhoda" is "The Angel of Paradise" aka a "reaper" who Hollywood is trying to portray as "the bad guy". This is a spoof on Michael the Archangel who is Satan's arch enemy. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5jTi2hjrqmtns0

[@drivinsouth651]

How do you know it wasn't Thor?

[@nina1522]

Why, Winslow! Good to see you! Been looking for you everywhere.

[@mangamegs]

@@drivinsouth651 thor ain't got the grape fruits to mess with Rhoda.

[@singalingalongaling]

LMAO 🤣

[@koravanity3953]

The instrumental in the background reminds me of summertime in the year 2020 with my boyfriend at the time Erifa Eduardo Moya Robaina & me Cheyanna Almodovar forever! I miss you papi!

[@tadimaggio]

This utterly silly ending was forced on the filmmakers by the Hollywood Production Code. Rhoda had committed three murders; therefore she had to either die or be arrested before the final fadeout. The Catholic Church was adamantly against suicide, so Christine had to live, to protect her status as a "good character". All the bone-chilling power of the ending of both William March's novel, and its stage adaptation, was lost: Christine (the only person who knows the truth about Rhoda) is dead, Rhoda is alive and well, and will go on killing for decades until she is found out.

[@gameofpwns1165]

Interesting! Good to know the novel concludes sensibly. This ending is incredibly clunky to be sure. Guess it "subverts expectations," but in so doing sacrifices all semblance of literary elegance

[@jadaparks2564]

it would have been nice to have a follow up movie of how the PENMARK's had to deal with Rhoda's death and the wife explaining to the husband about her bloodline/history of her killer mother.

[@colleen4ever]

And then immidiately getting her tubes tied.

[@maxotaurus5140]

I see it different, just my opinion. Yours is great too. They'd need to get back to canon. Properly follow what actually happened in book, play and original movie. Canon is Rhoda survived, mom died. Which would of course be the proper interesting sequel. It could be interesting enough about the mom but one can see a better terrifying end the actual author intended and those that enjoyed play were titulated with! Anyway The movie was made, finished. But censors said Rhoda can not get away with it (as she did in book and play). So they tacked on ending. Didn't fool me . Watched the movie and could absolutely tell the ending was tacked on. Congrats to me. I researched and learned. I think of it as the story was actually written and movie unmodified - Rhoda lives and mom died. Book should trump. And censors messed up a thriller with further franchise possibilities.

[@PineMartinAmerican]

1956 in America was a strange time. I remember.

[@jaulloa21]

You guys were living in the twilight zone lol

[@idhamsyamil4772]

@@jaulloa21 fr

[@kimberlyjones8185]

Great movie! Fitting end for the little evil brat. God truly dont like ugly it always comes back on you, like karma.

[@graciegj63]

Kimberly Jones I prefer, you reap what you sow. Because karma comes from Hinduism.

[@jonathancullen1069]

i always thought Rhoda was too smart to be your average 8 year old

[@mangamegs]

Side note: This comment it now the same age as Rhoda was then.

[@MarySmith-lv3mo]

@@mangamegs LMAO! :D Touche :D

[@gribbleparts]

The fate of the author, William March, kind of resembles the ending to this movie. He had a heart attack a month before the book was published; he died a month after it was published. Although they followed soon after his book, he never saw the play or the movie. He didn't get to enjoy the success. About all he had time for was to read some positive critical reviews of his book. The day of his death they found a paragraph typed on paper still in his typewriter which talked about how everyone, in their astonishment, reaches a point where they realize they are no different and they won't live forever whomever they are.

[@joycew1560]

gribbleparts

[@elizabethr4107]

Ty for sharing

[@rr7firefly]

I laughed for several minutes when that lightning bolt incinerated Rhoda, burning her to a crisp.

[@catpeach326]

They changed the ending in the film because back in the 1950's, a child getting away with murder wouldn't have sat well with the audience. In the book Rhoda's killing is never exposed. After her mother Christine kills herself, it is implied that Rhoda will go on to live a life as a murderer, like her grandmother Bessie Denker, who got caught and was sent to the electrical chair. But unlike Bessie, Rhoda will most likely get away with her crimes, kinda like how Bill Cosby got away with raping women for over thirty God Damn years!

[@anoukcarswell6611]

+Cat PeachThis aint got nothing to do with THE COS

[@singalingalongaling]

Cat Peach Don’t use the GD curse word because that is blasphemous and taking the Lord’s name in vain!

[@frankieprice2904]

no one cares keep ur religion to yourself

[@singalingalongaling]

Frankie Fletcher I was just trying to help!

[@jimscribner8314]

Bill Cosby had Rhoda's charisma but rape is merely endangering somebody's health let's note not murdering them. Bill had a much stricter mother who beat a bit higher ethical standards into him Rhoda was deprived of.

[@harolddburke4726]

I watched this movie when I was a boy. I will never ever forget it.. The acting so good I felt pain in my emotional heart. Like the story was really happening.

[@rippingtons60]

And then Satan appears with Rhoda and comically says "Isn't it bad enough down there without HER???!!!!"

[@catalinaz2367]

You can literally see her in the freaking water. That’s what scared me.

[@Eyeglompyou]

I like the credits at the end after this XD She gets spanked!

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

In the novel Rhoda wasn't spanked, but when she told her mom she killed the little boy, Christine did slap her!

[@maxpower1337]

best bad seed ever.

[@Johnleonard-w5z]

I never expected the ending to be what it was. Every person has to know their limitations.

[@lynfoster2484]

Oh, no! This video stops before all of the actors come out and take a bow, and then Rhoda gets a spanking by her mother. I read that they had to do that for the audience, to lighten the mood of a plot with a murderous child who gets zapped by lightning at the end. It’s my favorite part of the whole movie, LOL.

[@Caroline-yl4kr]

The Bad Seed (1956) f'u"l'l M'0'V'l"e -------------------- ☛ hereforwatch.blogspot.com/tt0048977/ √™ Lorsqu'une pilule qui donne aux utilisateurs cinq minutes de super pouvoirs inattendus arrive dans les rues de la Nouvelle-Orléans, un adolescent marchand et un policier local doivent faire équipe avec un ancien soldat pour √faire tomber le groupe responsable de sa fabrication."""**" 今後は気をライブ配信の再編ありがとうです！この日のライブ配信は、かならりやばかったですね！１万人を超える人が見ていたもん（笑）やっぱり人参最高！まさかのカメラ切り忘れでやら1かしたのもドキドキでした,. 💖🖤在整個人類歷史上，強者，富人和具有狡猾特質的人捕食部落，氏族，城鎮，城市和鄉村中的弱者，無`'守和貧窮成員。然而，人類的生存意願迫使那些被拒絕，被剝奪或摧毀的基本需求的人們找到了一種生活方式，並繼續將其DNA融入不斷發展的人類社會。. 說到食物，不要以為那些被拒絕的人只吃垃圾。相反，他們學會了在被忽視的肉類和蔬菜中尋找營養。他們學會了清潔，切塊，調味和慢燉慢燉的野菜和肉類，在食品"""""""'"""

[@siegeworks1281]

You have to love the classics what would you do if that was your child knowing what her mother knows ??? This movie has stuck in my head ever since the first time I've seen it it's definitely one for the ages ! I think they should show this movie in school as part of the health curriculum !

[@ryohn5468]

The bright side of 1956 was La Ballon Rouge or the Red Balloon filmed in France. I love scenery of the Rue de Menilmontant. Such a good film.

[@mE-zx7pt]

Love both of these movies. 👍🏻

[@jimstardust]

@Vernedi Thanks. I don't put or evaluate "God" in movies (they're both fiction and their function is to entertain) but that ending implied a god-like hand in Rhoda's death. It was put in to appease or please somebody, but it only added a "wait......what?!" ending the otherwise perfect movie didn't need. They should have stuck to the "One Moment Please..." cast introductions that reassure us it was only a movie. And if "Rhoda" scared you, your reaction should be to thank Patty McCormack the actor

[@andywood5699]

If you listen to the mother talk about her own mother and childhood you would know what Rhoda would be like as an adult.

[@durriyyahshabazz36]

love this movie

[@nessaj4522]

She had everybody's back but not like she should have. She didn't know where to turn. Poor lady even thought she was her fault. She had it bad, a cursed mom and daughter. Christina dad looked at Rhoda like he did because he saw her grandmother in her.

[@marlanaedwards5296]

HAPPY 75TH BIRTHDAY TO PATTY MCCORMACK! FOREVER RHODA! (August 25, 2020).

[@AssinnippiJack]

I remember watching this movie as a child (late 1960's) on TV. It rattled me pretty good. There were some strange movies in the 50's & 60's. Bunny Lake Is Missing was another one.

[@irmaoro251]

God knew she was a bad person

[@Christrulesall2]

Thats why he took her out. Had she lived, no telling the pain and damage she would have caused. Just sheer evil.

[@HippieGoddess142]

Irma Oro She clearly had conduct disorder.

[@screenactorsguilable]

@Genexolev Ashtiani but threw her into hell

[@alanmorris7669]

Was this bolt of lightning actually divine intervention? Was it just a bizarre coincidence? I guess the world will never know.

[@raymondgarafano8604]

Hello Alan Morris, maybe we are not to know and that makes us question things and to use our brains more? Either way she won't do that again. I have seen the movie and the play. It has to be a horrible thing for a mother to give birth to something evil and once she began to see what was going on and put 2 and 2 together. . . naw the kid won't do that again. . . I know it's a movie, yet it does depict very real evil, the lack of remorse. . .a sense of knowing right from wrong. . .

[@maxotaurus5140]

Stupid censors forced that false lightning to canon ending in book and play where Rhoda lives and mom is dead the second she shoots. "We still have Rhoda". See? I have inert original version with more scenes (pinning of boy, bg see Rhoda chasing boy etc) and ending of Rhoda living. Last scene is a cute stage bow by all.

[@finderskeepers5343]

Now we have a entire generation of young psychopaths.

[@chrismulwee4911]

The movie doesn't quite end here, this is followed by a "cutesy" curtain call in which all the actors come out for a bow, while Henry Jones, in his natural voice, announces each one

[@LadyVader33]

I wonder what inspired the author to write this. And how he concluded sociopathism is genetic

[@MsLuvmusic81]

Exactly!!! These people aren’t born they are made! That’s what was so weird , it doesn’t show realistically what makes a person this way. She was either extremely spoiled or abused

[@LadyVader33]

@@MsLuvmusic81 there actually IS research confirming there's a genetic factor. My narcissistic mother was remarkably like rhoda: entitled, unempathetic, and selfish. Like her grandmother

[@MsLuvmusic81]

@@LadyVader33 its overwhelmingly due to upbringing for sure

[@Christrulesall2]

@@MsLuvmusic81 Psalms 58:3-10 " The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear" In some rare cases, these people are just born, not made. There are many videos on KZbin where psychoanalysis have concluded from extensive evaluation and research of a adult or child's personal and environmental history that there is no rational reason as to why they are a psycho or sociopath.

[@ruthcaperchione4103]

They really believed that nature (genetics and stuff you're born with) determine almost everything back then. Nature vs nurture was a pretty new concept.

[@Fronika]

Great film.

[@sweetcinnamonpnchkin]

When I first saw the film, I thought the mom was going to take the pills, too. Jumped when the gun went off. About screamed at the “you still have Rhoda”. Only to cheer when God struck that little monster down.

[@m.e.d.7997]

They should have had her take pills. IT was unrealistic to ever survive and gunshot to the head and talking coherently in the end.

[@StalinTheMan0fSteel]

And she would have made a superlative Black Widow when she grew up.

[@fallenanakin]

What happened is that when the lightening struck it it kind of propelled her body in the water. If you pay attention real closely when the lightening strikes her you don't see her fall in the water but you see a little splash in the water from her body falling in.

[@ionthetarget]

...one of my elementary schools training films.

[@m.e.d.7997]

That is odd.

[@DisastropheFilms]

@multitalentino I wasn't talking about stage plays. I know the difference, lol. I have a degree in theatre and in film (well I will when I graduate in 2 weeks). Even on its wikipedia page it says "The ending of the 1956 film was changed from the novel in order to comply with the Hays Code."

[@slimmy38]

I really loved this movie...in the original play she got away with everything...but at that time they did not want a little girl to be able to get away with something as terrible as that the things she was doing.

[@kishaunarcher223]

So what happens at the end in the play?

[@screenactorsguilable]

@@kishaunarcher223 she went on killing

[@kellyyork3898]

God got her with a lightening bolt.

[@sharonlct]

All who were Academy Award nominees should have won, as should have Henry Jones who played Leroy.

[@FinKevin-ol9ui]

Mo Gaffney does a HILARIOUS spoof of Eileen Heckert's drunk scene with Rhoda in the "Birthing" episode of Absolutely Fabulous. It is comically genius. She plays the drunk camp to the hilt while trying to steal Saffy's new born. Definitely check it out. Pluto TV and Amazon Prime Live TV run the episode a lot.

[@danielthompson3168]

I hope she found the medal just before the lightning strike.

[@koravanity3953]

R.I.P Erifa Eduardo Moya Robaina my only boyfriend and the one I Love!

[@denisedillinger1354]

This young actresses range was quite exquisite. I don’t think she got the flowers she deserved. patty McCormicks Rhoda is what Heath ledger was to the joker she played this character seamlessly

[@Monica_K17]

“There some that Monica dropped of” my name is Monica (I’m scared)🤣

[@m.e.d.7997]

Loved the movie but why would Rhoda go out in a thunderstorm at night and realistically Christine would never be awake and talking like that after a gunshot to the head.

[@rfldnz6487]

sweet sweet little Rhoda....

[@rfldnz6487]

I love Rhoda, she is so sweet, beautifull, and world needs child like that!!! I seriously love Rhoda.-)))

[@girthbrooks4730]

Holy Crap!!! A movie about my step daughter.

[@itsashepubg8967]

HAHAHAHA you made me laugh hahaha

[@rosebud1493]

Well I'm sure she feels the same of you.

[@Carminasimdesigner]

K...LOL.. brilliant editing on this clip montage. I'm just cracking up because I just showed my fiance and he was like.. WTHECK... hahahahahaah. Then I saw the last post below which was ????? and we're crackin up..lol nice one thanks! :D

[@beanyboo4120]

Which do you prefer? A) The bad seed 1956 (this one) B) The bad seed 2018

[@singalingalongaling]

A

[@DisastropheFilms]

@slimmy38 It's actually because of the Hollywood movie code, by law they couldn't depict any person who committed a crime, regardless of age, and getting away with it.

[@lottamiles5510]

In the book that this movie is based on, the mother dies and Rhoda isn’t struck by lightning.

[@debbiek7934]

Great movie!

[@Grizzlied555]

She got the electric, without the chair.

[@64DROC1]

I Don t Know Wat It Is About The Ending Scene Where She Gets Struck Down But it did something to my 3 year Old Cousin Last Night becuz she would not dare set foot outside when this movie went off last night and wen her mother told her to and finally got her outside she cried like hell ! i take it that she got the message !

[@arnoldamaral7406]

It was a mercy killing!

[@dr.strangebat9397]

Thanos: now that's what I call...mercy!

[@singalingalongaling]

Coup de gráce

[@pnyxprez]

Since it is a story.. I think "Karma" or " come up ins" ended the story...

[@pkstarstorm1up]

@Moonloved6 It's not sad what happened to Rhoda, it's sad what her mother had to go through. It's sad that Rhoda killed three innocent people and got away with it in the Book and Play versions. In this version she got what she deserved and while it is upsetting that an Eight year old girl died, seeing as how the child was a serial killer and would have kept on killing otherwise, than it's a good thing that she died.

[@jjh1899]

She couldn't just let that medal fucking go.. Tsk..tsk

[@barbarachipman9436]

good movie. even Hicthcock could not do it better.

[@Kidicaruslover]

I personally like the book ending better. But of course that would be too graphic back then

[@keyopronin4134]

Leroy new Rhoda was evil ass hell, he fucked up by pushing her buttons in this scene.

[@rod-lostatdusk7395]

The ending scene was played by another girl but it's a dark setting where you cant make her face out.

[@kerronmcsween6095]

Why was these nice classic family movies like this hidden from me?😕if anyone has many like these classics family movies please give me a list☺️

[@JF-yx8bu]

Mommy dearest is another good one

[@maxotaurus5140]

Stupid censors forced studio to tack on the lightning scene. Canon endings in book and play are Rhoda lives and mom is dead the second she shoots. For example the dialog "We still have Rhoda". I have an intact true to original version with more scenes (pinning of boy, background scene see Rhoda chasing boy at picnic, Leroy visit his parents etc) and ending of Rhoda living; no stupid lightning scene- medals sink and it's storming! Rhoda would wait. Last scene is a cute stage bow by all including a paddling of "Rhoda". The paddling of "Rhoda" is made irrelevant by tacked on lighting scene already "punishing" her in edited version because of censors.

[@fleurmartin]

How on earth did you get that? I wanted a filmed version of the actual play. Which I don't even know if they did then. I even contacted local film museums.

[@Disneyfan82]

​@@fleurmartinThere's another version of this film so quit your whimpering

[@Disneyfan82]

Aw stop whining. Go watch another version that exists

[@nessaj4522]

Did God strike her down or was it an accident? Lol Thanks for the clip.

[@MarySmith-lv3mo]

I remember a Critic saying something like,"Rhoda looks POSSESSED going to the Pier at night in a thunderstorm to go get that medal...

[@Christrulesall2]

It was the big man himself. At least that's what i took from it. To evil, had to go.

[@koravanity3953]

This scene is so sad to me!

[@Risingrepti4returntohashem]

And then Samael, the venom of God took a grand entrance

[@gothicmatter9123]

This part was so sad 😔

[@winonification]

They sure changed the ending of the play. In the original play Rhoda lives and her mother dies and Rhoda gets away with.

[@m.e.d.7997]

That happens in the book. I thought the movie was like the Broadway play.

[@gliderarts3573]

metal pole with net......rain....... She invented the lightning rod.....once.....

[@raymondgarafano8604]

I forgot about a lot of the story but it seems her Mom knows what she is, telling her she dropped the medal at the end of the pier, knowing her daughter would go out to get it in the midst of an electrical storm . . .shocking

[@jackgrattan3144]

An act of God, courtesy of the production code.

[@SaturdayMorno86]

2:49 The sound of getting shot and fall dead to the floor

[@PineMartinAmerican]

That girl needs a year in the pen.

[@colleen4ever]

She's getting far worse than that where she is now!