THE BAD SEED play ending was the same as the book, where the mother dies
and someone tells her husband that at least he has little Rhoda to
comfort him...ha!
The movie ending was forced by the Production Code, that stated at the
time that all wrongdoing must be punished in the end. It was an absurd
finish to an otherwise cool movie (although the "curtain call' at the
end where Patty McCormack got a spanking was even dumber.)
Greg Douglass
Michael B wrote:
what's your favorite Movie from a play? i believe that the answer
should be a movie that had few changes from the play.
mine is: DIAL M FOR MURDER
/Dial M for Murder/ premiered in 1952 as a BBC television
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_television> play, before being
performed on the stage in the same year (West End
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_End_theatre> in June, and then
Broadway <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_theatre> in October).
honorable mentions:
The Children's Hour
The Bad Seed (interesting how the film version changed the ending
from the play)
michael
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