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The Bad Seed (1956 film) Quotes

The Bad Seed (1956 film) is a TV program that first aired in 1970 . The Bad Seed stopped airing in 1970.

It features Mervyn LeRoy as producer, Alex North in charge of musical score, and Harold Rosson as head of cinematography.

The Bad Seed (1956 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Bad Seed (1956 film) is 129 minutes long. The Bad Seed (1956 film) is distributed by Warner Bros..

The cast includes: Henry Jones as Leroy, Nancy Kelly as Christine Penmark, Patty McCormack as Rhoda, Eileen Heckart as Hortense Daigle, William Hopper as Col. Kenneth Penmark, Evelyn Varden as Monica Breedlove, Joan Croydon as Claudia Fern, and Jesse White as Emory Wages.

The Bad Seed (1956 film) Quotes

Nancy Kelly as Christine Penmark

  • (Nancy Kelly) "Rhoda, what happened to old Mrs. Post in Wichita?"
  • (Patty McCormack) "There was ice on the steps and I slipped and fell against her, and that was all."
  • (Nancy Kelly) "That was all?"
  • (Patty McCormack) "No. I slipped on purpose."
  • (Nancy Kelly) "Operator? I'd like to -- to call -- Washington -- D. C., please --"
  • (Nancy Kelly) "Oh Kennith, my darling. What am I going to say to you? That our baby isn't -- isn't."
  • (Nancy Kelly) "And as for you --"
  • (Nancy Kelly) "Do you really mean to say that nice family surroundings and advantages could make no difference at all?"
  • (Reginald 'Reggie' Tasker) "Yes. It's as if these children were born blind permanently and you just couldn't expect to teach them to see."
  • (Nancy Kelly) "Well, would you notice any brutish expressions on their faces?"
  • (Reginald 'Reggie' Tasker) "Sometimes. But more often they present a more convincing picture of virtue than normal folk."
  • (Nancy Kelly) "But that's horrible."
  • (Reginald 'Reggie' Tasker) "It's just that they are bad seeds. Plain bad from the beginning. And nothing can change them."

Eileen Heckart as Hortense Daigle

  • (Eileen Heckart) "Miss Fern dyes her hair."
  • (Eileen Heckart) "I'm drunk. It's a pleasure to stay drunk when your little boy's been killed."
  • (Eileen Heckart) "Children can be nasty, don't you think?"
  • (Eileen Heckart) "He was such a lovely, dear little boy. He used to say I was his sweetheart and he was going to marry me when he grew up. I would laugh so. "No you won't. You'll forget about me long before then. You'll find a prettier girl and marry her." And do you know what he said then? "No, I won't. 'Cause there isn't a prettier girl in the whole world than you are.""
  • (Eileen Heckart) "I just want to have a talk with your little girl. She was one of the last to see my Claude alive."
  • (Nancy Kelly) "I know."
  • (Eileen Heckart) "Where do you keep the perfect little lady who was the last to see Claude? I thought I'd hold her in my arms and we'd have a little talk where maybe she'd remember some little thing -- any little thing."
  • (Nancy Kelly) "She's out playing, I think."
  • (Eileen Heckart) "Well, I'm unfortunate, that's all. Drunk and unfortunate, ladies and gentlemen."
  • (Eileen Heckart) "I always considered Christine a general name. Hortense sounds fat. That's me, Hortense. Hortense. My girl Hortense, they used to sing to me, hasn't got much sense, let's write her name on the dirty fence -- children can be nasty sometimes."

Patty McCormack as Rhoda

  • (Patty McCormack) "I like apricot juice, it doesn't even need ice."
  • (Patty McCormack) "Why can't you wash off blood?"
  • (Henry Jones) "Because you can't. And the police know it. You can wash it and you can wash it. There's always some left. Everybody knows that."
  • (Patty McCormack) "What will you give me for a basket of kisses?"
  • (William Hopper) "A basket of kisses? Why, I'll give you a basket of hugs."
  • (Patty McCormack) "You tell lies like that, you won't go to Heaven when you die."
  • (Patty McCormack) "Claude was dead. He wouldn't know if he had the medal pinned on him or not."
  • (Patty McCormack) "You figured out something that never happened and so it's all lies."

Evelyn Varden as Monica Breedlove

  • (Evelyn Varden) "You sound like Fred Astaire tap tap tapping across the floor."
  • (Evelyn Varden) "What has she DONE?"
  • (Nancy Kelly) "It isn't what she's done, it's what I've done --"

Henry Jones as Leroy

  • (Henry Jones) "They got a little blue chair for little boys and a little pink chair for little girls."
  • (Henry Jones) "You want to know what you done after you hit him? You jerked the medal off his shirt and then you rolled that sweet little boy off that wharf from under them pilings."
  • (Patty McCormack) "You don't know anything. None of what you've said is true."
  • (Henry Jones) "You know I'm telling the gospel truth. You know I got it figured out."
  • (Patty McCormack) "You've figured out something that never happened. And so it's all lies. Now take your excelsior to the basement and put it where you can sleep on it when you are supposed to be working."
  • (Henry Jones) "They got what they call stick bloodhounds to help them look. And them stick bloodhounds can find any stick there is that's got blood on it."
  • (Henry Jones) "I thought I'd seen some mean little gals in my time, but you're the meanest. You wanna know how I know how mean you are? 'Cause I'm mean. I'm smart and I'm mean, and you're smart and you're mean. And you never get caught and I never get caught."

Jesse White as Emory Wages

  • (Jesse White) "Well, I'll be a middle-aged mongoloid from Memphis."

Joan Croydon as Claudia Fern

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