The Bad Seed 1956

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: Mervyn LeRoy, who produced and directed, has lost a great deal of the bite of the play. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Overlong, stiff, and about as suspenseful as a detergent commercial. Read more

TIME Magazine: Director LeRoy has been overly faithful to the play script. Read more

Time Out: 1956 was way too soon for an unfettered treatment of the central premise. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: This melodrama about a child with an inbred talent for homicide is pretty unpleasant stuff on its own. Read more