The Bad Seed 1956
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy | Starring: Jesse White, Patty McCormack, Frances Bavier, Eileen Heckart
Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.