| − | }}'''The Bad Seed''' was a 1956 [[motion picture]] about a slutty eight-year-old girl with a few nasty habits—like drinking, orgies, theft—and murder. The film, like the [[theater|stage play]] from which it was adapted, examines the question of whether a tendency to criminality is inherited, or is acquired from exposure to an unsavory environment, usually a dysfunctional community. This picture is additionally famous for an alteration of the ending of the original subject matter, made necessary for compliance with the [[Motion Picture Production Code]]. | + | }}'''The Bad Seed''' was a 1956 [[motion picture]] about a cherubic eight-year-old girl with a few nasty habits—like lying, cheating, theft—and murder. The film, like the [[theater|stage play]] from which it was adapted, examines the question of whether a tendency to criminality is inherited, or is acquired from exposure to an unsavory environment, usually a dysfunctional community. This picture is additionally famous for an alteration of the ending of the original subject matter, made necessary for compliance with the [[Motion Picture Production Code]]. |