Season 1: Episode 11 - BOOK TO SCREEN: The Bad Seed (1956)

The Bad Seed tells the story of Rhoda Penmark, the picture perfect child who harbors a villainous demeanour. 

 

The Bad Seed was a best selling book which was turned in to a Broadway sensation earning a Tony Award for Nancy Kelly in the part of Christine Penmark.  It was also nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1955.  The film would bring almost the entire Broadway cast to the screen and would garner four Oscar nominations. 

 

Examining the theme of nurture over nature, the film and book opens plenty of questions and leaves it to the audience to come up with their own conclusions.

 

Opening Titles (0.21); Introduction (2.30); Forming the Plot (7.45); Prologue (11.10); Page to Page (11.59); Commercial Break (1:05.30); Screen Testing/Casting (1:06.28); Commercial (1:09.46); Lights, Camera Action (1:10.22); Epilogue (2:07.27); End Credits (2:10.55)

 

Opening Credits – The Bad Seed – by Alex North from the album The Bad Seed (Original Soundtrack Recording)

 

Closing Credits – In These Shoes – by Kirsty MacColl from the album Tropical Brainstorm

 

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All songs can be purchased through Amazon.  Book and Film available through Amazon.