Il giglio nero

Titolo originale: The Bad Seed
Regia: Mervyn LeRoy |
Anno: 1956
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Thriller Dramma Horror
Tag: lightning | confession | child murder | murder | lightning bolt | psychotic | evil child | cautionary | murder confession | critical | foreboding | ominous |
Cast: Nancy Kelly | Patty McCormack | Henry Jones | Eileen Heckart | Evelyn Varden | William Hopper | Paul Fix | Jesse White | Gage Clarke | Joan Croydon | Frank Cady | Frances Bavier | Violet N. Cane | Vivian Clermont | Shelley Fabares | Kathy Garver | Don C. Harvey | Edna Holland | Dayton Lummis | Natalie Masters | Patricia Morrow | Adele Taylor | John Truax |

Rhoda, otto anni, uccide un compagno di scuola per un banalissimo motivo. Si scopre pian piano che si tratta solo di uno dei sanguinosi anelli di una catena. La tremenda verità è infatti che la piccola ha ereditato i folli istinti omicidi di sua nonna.

Frasi

Rhoda: Oh, I've got the prettiest mother. I've got [...] D
Monica Breedlove: Oh, whatever will be done, will [...] D
[last title card] Title Card: You have just seen [...] D
Christine Penmark: Did she kill him? But she's my [...] D
[ending credits] Christine Penmark: And as for yo [...] D
Hortense Daigle: Miss Fern dyes her hair. D
Leroy: You want to know what you done after you hi [...] D
Leroy Jessup: [after Mrs. Breedlove is out of ears [...] D
Christine Penmark: [End credits scene; Christine P [...] D
Hortense Daigle: I always considered Christine a g [...] D
Leroy: Swallow me a frog, but she's smart! D
Rhoda: Mother, when we move into our new house, ca [...] D
Rhoda: You figured out something that never happen [...] D
Hortense Daigle: He was such a lovely, dear little [...] D
[How murderers are executed] Leroy: They got a li [...] D
Leroy: They got what they call stick bloodhounds t [...] D
Hortense Daigle: [drunkenly] I just want to have a [...] D
Christine Penmark: This is my daughter, Rhoda. Re [...] D
Rhoda: You tell lies like that, you won't go to He [...] D
Christine Penmark: You hit him with the shoes, did [...] D
Hortense Daigle: I'm drunk. It's a pleasure to sta [...] D
Christine Penmark: Operator? I'd like to... to cal [...] D
Leroy: You ask me and I say you don't even feel so [...] D
Hortense Daigle: Children can be nasty, don't you [...] D
Monica Breedlove: What has she DONE? Christine Pe [...] D
Monica Breedlove: Oh, how wonderful it is to meet [...] D
Rhoda: I like apricot juice, it doesn't even need [...] D
Rhoda: Mother, we didn't really have our lunch, be [...] D
Rhoda: Swallowing pills is just a trick. D
Emory Wages: Well, I'll be a middle-aged mongoloid [...] D
Christine Penmark: Rhoda, what happened to old Mrs [...] D
Rhoda: What will you give me for a basket of kisse [...] D
Rhoda: I don't know what you're talking about. I d [...] D
Leroy: Mornin' Miss Uppity. When I was in school, [...] D
Rhoda: Claude was dead. He wouldn't know if he had [...] D
Claudia Fern: Smooth the wrinkles from your brow m [...] D
Rhoda: Why can't you wash off blood? Leroy: Becau [...] D
Christine Penmark: All right. All right now, we're [...] D
Leroy: [to Rhoda] I thought I'd seen some mean lit [...] D
Christine Penmark: Do you really mean to say that [...] D
Henry Daigle: Come, Hortense. It's time to go home [...] D
Monica Breedlove: You sound like Fred Astaire tap [...] D