The Bad Seed (1956) final "curtain call" scene

[@cmulwee001]

Yes, sometimes when a movie has been overly serious a lighthearted curtain call helps, to remind us it's only a movie and that nobody REALLY died.

[@dontaylor7315]

Imo the curtain call was to remind the audience that this was adapted from a highly successful stage play.

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

They should have done this for Little Shop Of Horrors. The reason they changed the ending was because there was no curtain call and it felt like the main characters really were dead and the ending was Audrey II takes over the world. They made it a happy ending, but with the curtain call, you see the actors are just fine. I mean, I know most of the characters in the play had questionable morals, but even then, no one can condone the part where the plant attacked Audrey.

[@dontaylor7315]

@@strawberrysoulforever8336 I liked Roger Corman's original Little Shop way better than the musical. It was unapologetically a dark comedy without the veneer of cuteness. And no fake happy ending.

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

@@dontaylor7315 The stage musical too, when the ending made it through? The happy ending was exclusive to the movie and the original ending was restored (although admittedly Don't Feed The Plants is much better on stage).

[@dontaylor7315]

@@strawberrysoulforever8336 I can't venture an opinion on the stage musical, I haven't seen a production of it. If it ends with the line "I didn't mean it!" like Corman's version that would be a definite plus.

[@sweetcinnamonpnchkin]

I like how they did this to lighten the mood after the movie. I wish they did this for more films today, I bet people would not feel to depressed after movies.

[@rr7firefly]

At the very very end of "2001 A Space Odyssey" HAL is seen smoking a cigarette while joking around with the Star Child. At the very very end of "Planet of the Apes" Charlton Heston and Zira are naked on the beach making the sweet love.

[@phanhnee2340]

😂

[@Poltergeistors]

Imagine if they had a scene like this in The Exorcist, It’d Be Hilarious.

[@UNOwen1]

One of the GREAT performances from a child actor. I LOVE Rhoda, and, Patty McCormack - a BIG thanks!!!

[@jubalcalif9100]

I have a notion to second that emotion. Patty was sheer perfection in her role.

[@Mark017m]

Sure, What a little cutie! She must've had so much fun doing this picture.

[@kensellers4082]

Patty McCormack Russo later portrayed Liz LaCerva, mother of the doomed Adriana LaCerva, on the great HBO series, “The Sopranos.”

[@homeroferguson4793]

It was a hard film to watch. A light-hearted curtain call relieved breath-taking tension by reminding the viewers that the child was a real child, OK, and an excellent actress,

[@jubalcalif9100]

Indubitably ! That's why they added the lighthearted spanking at the end. To lighten the mood for the audience after such a harrowing plotline.

[@andrewholdaway813]

Utterly stupid and ruined the film

[@SDK-im8sl]

@@jubalcalif9100 It also served to lessen any idiotic perceptions that the real Patty McCormack was truly an evil child, a bad seed. It reminded the audience that the young actress was a regular kid who enjoyed having some playful fun. The smiles and laughter were a good move.
Nowadays, there would be a humorless, overwrought outcry that a 'portrayal of child abuse' was terrible and unacceptable -- demanding the resignations of all involved. The murders in the story would remain in the film, but the lighthearted spanking bit would be piously censored out.

[@hublotkingcole683]

@@SDK-im8sl no it wouldnt. you just made that up just to make it up.

[@eastherparkins9583]

@@jubalcalif9100 f

[@fossefan]

Patty's clearly enjoying it.

[@darrylthompson7453]

I can tell it's obvious because they're both laughing

[@divasacadura]

@@darrylthompson7453 0

[@alanmorris7669]

It's too bad that television isn't like this anymore. We will never see a cast give an encore like this ever again.

[@SDK-im8sl]

They don't even do legible end credits on most shows now. Gotta make room for commercials, not boring acknowledgement of many people's dedicated work.

[@ambskater97]

This is a film, not a show.

[@kiera6326]

You can see how much Nancy was trying not to laugh lol.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Indubitably ! Cute scene ! Nancy tries to get a straight face but just can't. And Patty smiles broadly as Nancy turns her over her knee. The smacks look firm but Patty probably didn't feel much under her dress, slip, panties, etc. Who knows...she may have worn a couple of pairs of panties as further protection against the sting !

[@littlebritain64]

I saw the movie in Italy around twenty years after the making. I was 12 y.o. then. A great movie. The meaniest most psycopathic little angel of the whole cinema history!!

[@waivedwench]

I got the sense that, in this scene, the actors weren't in character and that it was an attempt to give a lighthearted ending to a serious film. If they had done this in the movie, Rhoda probably would have put her mother on the next "to be killed" list.

[@dontaylor7315]

You're right, they're not in character. Rhoda's already dead by lightning and Christine's in the hospital after shooting herself in the head. The scene at the end of the curtain calls is a joke and both actresses are laughing.

[@Mezzotenor]

Oh, I'd have APPLAUDED the spanking scene if I'd been watching the original release. But I agree, it's a just a fun thing between the actresses -- watch carefully and you see them both laugh.

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

Yes, I noticed Patty (Rhoda) was smiling. I actually was introduced to this movie by Jacqueline Wilson's autobiographical work "Jacky Daydream", so I never think of the girl as Rhoda, I think of her as Patty McCormack because that's how Jacqueline remembers her. She was too young to see the movie (only nine when it came out), but she saw the photos, and thought Patty was really beautiful and insisted her parents tell her the story after they saw it. Later on, she wrote about it as part of a "Family Day Out" composition, claiming they went to it (she made up the whole thing because days out with her family didn't go too well). Her mother was furious when Jacqueline told her and told her she had to tell her teacher the very next day that it wasn't true (I think she was worried about getting flak for taking her daughter to the movie). The teacher hadn't believed that part anyway, and he was lovely when she confessed, saying she was a storyteller with a vivid imagination, not a liar (he was her favourite primary school teacher - he even wrote to her after the book was published!).

[@jubalcalif9100]

Yes, it's all very lighthearted & played for laughs. As you pointed out, both Nancy & Patty are smiling.

[@XX-le1wn]

🤨It's the actress Patty McCormack being herself now, not Rhoda and she was introduced as herself by the announcer.
Yes, I could see the two actresses (no longer the characters) being funny and "all in good fun", I highly doubt Patty McCormack "had it coming" if she played the role that was asked of her.

[@spacecatgirl0]

away from murder three times. I love the movie anyway. The director, the producers, and the actors, actressess, and anybody else did a nice job on making this movie come true. I love it.

[@KerryManderbach]

This part wasn't generally shown on TV, most stations in the 70's used the time for a 30 second ad instead...

[@cmulwee001]

I know of an earlier serious film that ended with an even more lighthearted curtain call, Orson Welles Citizen Kane.
After two hours of heavy intense drama and the last scene where "Rosebud" is the name of a sled that he owned as a boy, being incinerated, and a THE END with a dramatic underscore, a curtain call follows with head shots of the actors and a cheery closing theme that you would expect more from a light comedy plays during the end credits.

[@jubalcalif9100]

As I do when I take off my hat, you make a good point. Yes, the music from Bernard Herrmann is indeed lighthearted during the cast call at the end of "Citizen Kane".

[@leifericson923]

I remember I was watching this in english class and when she got nailed by the lightening I laughed.

[@jubalcalif9100]

That's a shocking way to die....

[@Scorpiatrix]

Jeez, people, get a life! The spanking scene is between actors and done tongue-in-cheek and playfully after the credits roll. Don't be ignorant.

[@maxjohnson5546]

Amen

[@Texasjim2007]

Don't be so narrow minded as to believe there is only one possible interpretation of a scene in a film. You sound like some sort of Fundamentalist. Intelligent people can look at things on several different levels which the ignorant dislike because they that find too complex.

[@dontaylor7315]

@@Texasjim2007 "...A scene in a film?" Not really; it feels more like a scene AFTER the movie. And both actresses appear to be having too much fun for it to have much relevance to the film itself. Anyway why get so judgemental when someone fails to see it your way?

[@Texasjim2007]

@@dontaylor7315 Being able to see more than one point of view is the opposite of being judgmental. Being judgmental is making a choice between an innocent and guilty verdict in a trial. Being non-judgmental is being able to listen to both sides in a trial without assuming the person is innocent or guilty until you hear all the evidence.

[@dontaylor7315]

@@Texasjim2007 True as far as it goes but the definition of "non-judgemental" doesn't extend to making a choice and then venting invective at the person who makes a different choice.

[@jonplaud]

My ex saw this movie but stopped at the end before the cast came out. When we dated she finally saw the whole movie and laughed so much at the end.

[@BradyLMarshall]

Fun to see ending from a 1950s movie. It is SO unusual for a movie to have a curtain call scene like this one instead of text of credits scrolling up or appearing still on the screen. The ending scene of the 1970 film M*A*S*H takes a similar approach such that the announcer mentions each actor's name with a scene centered on the character that actor played.
I think that certain movies like The Wizard of Oz, Matilda, and The Angry Birds Movie should have had a curtain call scene instead of credits appearing as text on the screen. If I'm a director, writer, and actor, as I had planned, my movies will have a curtain call scene in the end.

[@izombieeatzombie4523]

Hey they did this b/c people were worried about the people actually dying.

[@denisedillinger1354]

This young actresses range was quite exquisite. I don’t think she got the flowers she deserved. patty McCormicks Rhoda is what Heath ledger was to the joker she played this character seamlessly

[@lwmson]

It certainly would have taken more than a spanking to rehabilitate a child who was born evil, which was the point of the story. However, I do like this ending because it reminded us that this was just a movie.

[@KAYA2COOKS010]

That was a great movie!

[@jimmyhd1969]

A spanking for killing three people? That's pretty mild.

[@sawyerporinchok2856]

My parents would kill me if I killed someone
I would never touch anyone ever this was a joke

[@Texasjim2007]

Well given the fact that we see her die and this is a spanking after her and her victims have all been raised from dead I imagine her murder victims would consider that fair enough and fully approve. :)

[@denisenoe1534]

The whole purpose was to end things on a light-hearted note. This was a movie and there was no serial murderer.

[@DanielSelk]

"And as for YOU..." *Swats her* XD Yeah!

[@sweetcinnamonpnchkin]

Too bad they do not do those now. The curtain calls.

[@alanmorris7669]

It's disappointing that TV isn't like this anymore. Today, people would think that an encore or curtain call is just too corny.

[@marieezzo5461]

I have the movie. It is one of my favorites and a terrific cast too.

[@johnminster3205]

My very first time at the movies; my Mother brought me.

[@alwaysblake148]

The Broadway play had Rhoda getting away with the murders. The film censors couldn't let this happen. So the actors got these ridiculous curtain calls to say, "See, it's just a movie," The spanking was a humorous touch between the actors, not the characters. The movie is painfully overacted and is a great bad movie. The Broadway play had the mother trying to kill Rhoda after which she kills herself. Rhoda is saved by neighbors to kill another day.

[@youtuber5669]

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[@nunyabeeswax3112]

I loved the funny ending of the closing credits. where the beautiful blue eyed blonde Rhoda finally got a good spanking that she deserved for going around killing people. Miss Patty McCormack was perfect for that role, along with her next starring role in "Kathy O'".

[@dontaylor7315]

Well not really - I mean it wasn't really Rhoda at that point since Rhoda's been fatally struck by lightning and as far as I recall Mrs Penmark is in the hospital with a brain injury and the two have just been announced in the curtain call as Nancy Kelly and Patty McCormick. So it's just two actresses indulging in a little horseplay.

[@phanhnee2340]

😂

[@jubalcalif9100]

Yes, Patty is very good in "Kathy O" as a spoiled child actress who's time spent (SPOILERS) with a loving family changes her for the better. A rare good guy role for Dan Duryea, who plays her studio's exasperated publicity head. Patty's character deserves a spanking for her arrogant & mean behavoir early in the film but (SPOILERS) she achieves a change of heart without the use of corporal punishment by the adults she torments. The loving kindness of others is what helps her repent of her naughty ways.

[@Texasjim2007]

@@dontaylor7315 All the world is a stage, To sleep perchance to dream. But aye there's the rub for in that sleep who knows what dreams may come. "There are more things in Heaven and Earth than your philosophies dream. The problem of evil is not really a problem when you realize the Author of the play is not limited to the curtain call to turn all the loose ends of every tragedy into a comedy. As Shakespeare's friend and fellow playwright Ben Johnson said on his deathbed, "Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult." :)

[@dontaylor7315]

@James Scribner Well, I wonder... Since I never took in a show at the Globe when it was Shakespeare's house, I don't really know if he ever had his players indulge in hijinks during the curtain cals. It's an amusing thought - imagine Lady Macbeth horsing around with Banquo as they took their bows...

[@spacecatgirl0]

Ha! Ha! I love the spanking part. So funny. It's so funny too because them two are actually laughing when they did that. I love this movie so darn much. Nothing wrong about Rhoda getting killed by lightening. My Mom and I had loved that part. So, no infect on me. I know that in the book that the mother was killed, not Rhoda. I found that sad because I love the mother. She is nice and beautiful. But, I have to understand that this is suppose to be scary so the child will have to end up getting a

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

This was at a time when they wouldn't have been allowed to let Rhoda get away with everything, so they had to kill her off at the end. I wonder if they had to let her mother live, though?

[@phanhnee2340]

😂

[@janetlieb2507]

She wasn't killed!🌛

[@jessynation8293]

Rhonda didn’t die

[@SDK-im8sl]

In the movie, which we're viewing here, Rhoda was struck dead by lightning. Ex deus machina.

[@IwshIcldstrtover]

I wonder why Frank Cady, who played Mr. Daigle, wasn't featured during the curtain call????

[@Texasjim2007]

I don't recall Mrs Daigle's husband being in the film at all.

[@IwshIcldstrtover]

@@Texasjim2007 You don't remember seeing her husband twice in the film? He 's with her both times she visits Mrs. Penmark.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Maybe he couldn't take the time off from running the general store in Hooterville. Though he went by the name of Sam Drucker when he was there. I wonder if he was hiding anything unsavory from his past.....

[@Eyeglompyou]

"And as for YOU!" *SPANK!!!* XD YES!!!

[@richardwyndham3386]

1:00

[@TnseWlms]

Remember the jumprope jingle "Johnny broke a bottle..."?
It can be adapted:
Down at the picnic, down at the lake
Rhoda drowned a body, it was no mistake.
Didn't tell Pa, burrned her Ma..."
You know the rest.

[@markford7618]

The end was her being struck by lightening. The curtain call was the best ever, showing a pretend spanking for her being so bad. They dont an cant make movies this great anymore

[@scottmiller6495]

Mark Ford Because this world stinks now because parents don't want to teach their children right from wrong anymore, they want to make friends with them.Liberal democrats are responsible for this horrible world and that's why things are bad now! Remember Freedom is for people to do what they're suppose to do not what they want to do !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@leonablackwell4907]

@@scottmiller6495 I bet you're friends with you're kids.

[@shimmeringfairydust3275]

She lived in the book. Christine committed suicide & gave Rhoda an OD of sleeping pills....but she was too mean to kill.

[@shimmeringfairydust3275]

Scott Miller obviously you’re a Trump fan, which means any credibility you try to cultivate went out the window some time ago.

[@scottmiller6495]

@@shimmeringfairydust3275 It has nothing to do with Trump it has to do with right and wrong. A system that worked for over 150 years when children and families did the proper things worked. This all changed 30 years ago and now many people are sorry for it. This is a proven fact !!!!!

[@KingOFuh]

New York Times, Screen: 'The Bad Seed'; Members of Broadway Cast Are Starred, By Bosley Crowther, September 13, 1956-SINCE "The Bad Seed" has been transplanted from stage to screen with the principal players of its original cast intact and with the line of its story faithfully followed, except at the very end, you might think the motion picture version would have as much shattering impact as the play-or even more, considering the opportunity for the camera to embrace a wider scene. But, by some rather curious disillusion, which probably occurs as a consequence of looking too closely at its basically melodramatic characters, this film about the monstrous mortal mischief that is done by an 8-year-old girl tends to appear synthetic. And at time it is downright droll. This is not to say that the problem which is posed on the Astor Theatre's screen lacks a peculiar fascination. The prospect of a psychopathic child who kills two people during the time span of the picture and is revealed to have killed an old lady before it begins is extraordinarily different and morbidly intriguing, to say the least. What is going to happen to this youngster plagues the curiosity throughout the film. And certainly at the outset of proceedings, it is startling and chilling to be informed, by slow stages, that this seemingly perfect youngster has caused the drowning of a boy in her class at school. This horrifying information is got across with the effect of a slow-fused bomb. But from this point on the behavior of virtually everyone in the film becomes so fantastically abnormal that it grows ridiculous and grotesque. Little Patty McCormack, who plays the murderer, not only acts with incredible sang-froid but she also postures with such calculation that it is hard to see how anyone could mistake her show of innocence for a fraud. Furthermore, little Miss McCormack looks a very mature 8-year-old. Take those manicured pig-tails off her and she could stand beside Marilyn Monroe. At the same time, Nancy Kelly makes the mother of this child so saturnine and so foolishly fatalistic that her outbursts of frenzy toward the end, when little darling coolly compounds her murders, deprive her of the sympathy she should have. This reviewer had the inhuman feeling that this poor woman oddly got what she deserved. As for Eileen Heckart's performance as the grief-torn mother of the boy who is drowned, it is badly confused by broad explosions of comical drunkenness, and Evelyn Varden plays a nosy neighbor as if she were laboring to get laughs. Henry Jones as a dim-witted janitor and Joan Croydon as the principal of the girl's school play their parts so broadly or blandly that they are close to burlesque. Mervyn LeRoy, who produced and directed, has lost a great deal of the bite of the play. He has done it in a style of presentation that is ostentatious and often insincere. Also, he and John Lee Mahin, the script writer, have changed the end so that it lacks the withering irony of the original. The attitude toward the whole thing is betrayed in a post-script, calling the actors on for bows. Miss Kelly spanks Miss McCormack for a gagged-up fadeout. Anything for a howl! THE BAD SEED, screen play by John Lee Mahin, based on the play by Maxwell Anderson, from the novel by William March; directed and produced by Mervyn LeRoy for Warner Brothers. At the Astor. Christine . . . . . Nancy Kelly; Rhoda . . . . . Patty McCormack; LeRoy . . . . . Henry Jones; Mrs. Daigle . . . . . Eileen Heckart; Monica . . . . . Evelyn Varden; Kenneth . . . . . William Hopper; Bravo . . . . . Paul Fix; Emory . . . . . Jesse White; Tasker . . . . . Gage Clarke; Miss Fern . . . . . Joan Croydon; Mr. Daigle . . . . . Frank Cady

[@troygoodall4825]

Patty McCormack did an excellent job of playing the bad girl. Rhoda had it coming for the terrible things she did. Hilarious.

[@KBAFourthtime]

Originally, in the book, it is said that Rhoda got away with her crimes, while Christine committed suicide. However, the Hays Code said crime was never allowed to pay in a movie, hence the change altogether, both in having Rhoda die in the actual movie, while Christine survives, and in having Nancy spank Patty.

[@XX-le1wn]

Yes Patty McCormack did what was asked of her by doing a fantastic job on playing the character. However, she was no longer playing Rhoda when Nancy was "punishing" her.
The announcer said "Miss Patty McCormack as Rhoda", she is now herself and not the character, and when the announcer said "And Miss Nancy Kelly as Christine Penmark", she was no longer "Rhoda's mother"
I highly doubt Patty McCormack had it coming if she played the role like she was suppose to do.
I find it off-putting that a lot of commenters like 1:07 so much, considering that the actress is herself now and no longer the Rhoda character.🤨🚩
Yes, I suppose they were trying to be funny, I did see both actresses were laughing. I also find it ironic and even more off-putting considering what usually goes on behind the scenes in Hollywood in general, they are no one to be claiming moral compass.
For example, RUclips tiktoks titled: Exposing creepy men in Hollywood. or something like that.
And don't get me started on the Documentary of Shirley Temple and what went behind the scenes there.

[@Texasjim2007]

@@XX-le1wn "What we pretend to be we eventually become."-Sigmund Freud. I think its probably beneficial to actors to be able to separate themselves from the roles they play so they can say "that isn't me" which historically many actors have had problems with.

[@EvanTehInklingChild]

Miss Patty McCormack Was Only 11 Years Old When She Played Rhoda In 1956

[@EvanTehInklingChild]

1:03 Punishment

[@jackkircher1755]

I watched this movie ONCE. There were a few scenes in which I had gotten to thinking her mother was going to spank her but it never happened. It appeared the mother would commit suicide instead of having to cope with her evil daughter.
This spanking scene was NOT part of the movie. It did confuse some folks. This was a curtain call introducing the cast. Patti was introduced just before the mother. The spanking Patti received was only playful since there was no spanking during the movie. The mother just thought she deserved one. By Patti's reaction, it took her by complete surprise and DID sting some before the camera faded out. What a great actress she was! Can't believe the movie was made before my own time!

[@dontaylor7315]

I don't think Patty was taken by surprise. I've seen children play that spanking game spontaneously among themselves many times and they made all the realistic noises just for fun and just as convincingly as Patty did here. I feel sure this scene was scripted but I think Kelly and McCormick were having fun with it; it's a matter of record they had developed an offscreen relationship during filming.

[@phanhnee2340]

😂

[@winstonsmiths2449]

LOVE this movie. As a young boy, the lightening strike was such a powerful ending. It was if God chose to remove such an evil child from this Earth. Always remember that scene.

[@kennethrojas8469]

I guess that's what they mean by "The End".

[@jubalcalif9100]

Ha ! Very good ! 🤣

[@richardrice8076]

I often wondered why Mr. Drucker(Sam Cady- Eileen Heckerts husband) wasn't included in the curtain call. A great movie.

[@amberharris401]

cute idyllic non-reality type 50s MOVIE spankin' ... wish i got it like THAT....

[@lawrencemalloy9673]

are u saying u need a spanking

[@tonybennett5518]

My g/f says this was the norm for her when growing up from her mother .

[@gloomysunday8242]

@@tonybennett5518 Depending on the time period she was born in, she was actually very lucky that she got raised like this.

[@ReconOne123456789]

Paramore: That's what you get!

[@yomasane3670]

Ms Kelly and Ms McCormick are smiling as the one turns the other over her knee. Patty reacts as any 10 yr old of that time would have, kicking, squirming and putting a hand back to protect her "self esteem". Ms Kelly is enjoying the dynamics of this scene too. Of all of the cast her character was the most entitled and qualified to deliver "naughty" Rhoda's "comeuppance".

[@yoichiromichishige7936]

Seen the movie dozens of times. I remember my mom watching it when I was like 5 or 6 and the apricot juice thing I have always remembered for some reason.
One thing I noticed tonite watching it on movies tv network.
In the curtain call scene they dont show Frank Cady who played Mr. Daigle. I thought that was very odd.

[@ilimari]

I saw this movie for the first time more than 20 years ago. Today I watched it again and realized the ending is not at all how I remembered it and now I wonder which movie am I mixing this one with. The ending I remember was the mom following Rhoda when she’s going to the lake and she drowns her daughter

[@teeizhot]

@JubalCalif This was after the movie actually ended. I haven't seen it in yrs. but I'm pretty sure the little girl (bad seed) was struck by lightening.

[@dontaylor7315]

Notice that the video begins with "The End" flashing on the screen. The lightning strike was a moment before that.

[@shakeelahmadbutt7427]

the spanking is so funny

[@SHIPP0DEMONS]

You can see Ms Pen smiling and the girl too XDD

[@rhunter42dragon]

@@doublee3886... the fuck? This wasn't a sexual thing you you weirdo! It was a bit of much needed comedy to lighten the mood.

[@chem100]

@pugcharlie Great movie. I actually like the curtain call. It's nice to hear the character and actors' names along seeing them. It informs the viewer in no uncertain terms who the actor is. I wish it was done today.

[@bluecatky]

Given the traumatic nature of the manner in which the film played out, the curtain call was a catharsis, especially seeing "Leroy" alive and unburnt and "Christine" giving "Rhoda" a good-natured spanking.

[@simonovessimon4242]

this movie deserves a lot of accolades for excellent cast script and direction..one of the top 10 movies ever in hollywood,,full of taboo subjects and intense drama..subject matter not in 1956...well done patty macormick and nancy kelly and henry jones.

[@JbLentolome]

this movie invented the bloopers...

[@organboi]

Luv it!!!

[@PaulaAllenPaulasPlace]

I liked this ending better then the books ending.

[@curlytoes22]

Paula Allen would have been funny if the book ended with Rhoda getting a spanking

[@SlySkylerGames]

1. What don't you understand about the end? it was fairly straightforward.
2. Christine is a "she"
3. Rhoda deserves a lot more than a spanking thank you very much.

[@shedrikaddison5866]

Yes *WAY* more

[@timboner3199]

The way I see it she should have her address pulled up Your underpants taking down and spank your bare butt

[@SackboyLBP]

1. Nobody knows
2. Thanks captain obvious!
3. Yeah, how about the guillotine

[@Perlinator67]

It appears that ACTRESS Patty McCormick was given a spanking as punishment for PLAYING THE ROLE of a killer. Rhoda, the CHARACTER, had already been killed by a bolt of lightning before this "curtain call" scene. (During a "curtain call" actors are considered to be no longer "in character".) So, here is a warning to all child actors: Don't play a killer or else you'll get spanked by a co-star!

[@HuntingViolets]

Or what is known as a funny bit between the actors playing on the characters while not strictly in character.

[@jimscribner8314]

In one of her last public appearances before she died Princess Leia spanked the actor who played her son in her last movie whose character turned to the Dark Side. As Sigmund Freud observed, be careful of the roles you choose to play because what we pretend to be we may eventually become.

[@dontaylor7315]

@@HuntingViolets It was surely meant as a joke. Both actresses were laughing. McCormack and Kelly were very close during production and they appear to be just playing around.

[@gloomysunday8242]

@@jimscribner8314 Where can we see this?

[@atomic3939]

Actually...in the original ending..Rhoda gets away with everything. But when they prescreened it with a live audience..everyone was so appauled by that..so they changed the ending to where she gets struck down by lightning..and they "humanized" the cast in this silly introduction. It was a different time in the 50's. lol.

[@rhunter42dragon]

I wonder if Patty McCormack got teased by her friends about this scene.

[@Texasjim2007]

This was made during the 1950's. Pretty much all kids got spanked back then so it was not that big a deal. Just a slapstick comedy routine.

[@rhunter42dragon]

@@Texasjim2007 Yeah, but it probably wasn't usually this public.

[@LuannOsbourne]

@@Texasjim2007 If this happened today, oh well.

[@sidsimon5963]

I would like to point out this has to be the first major film to deal with manipulating, homicidal children. And a very cute little girl at that. Not a teenager or a boy or an average plain looking child, but an adorable cute petite girl, the last person you would suspect of committing a bloody murder on a classmate.
This was made in 1956, an era when on screen husbands and wives slept in separate beds, nobody said the word pregnant or even looked pregnant and juvenile crime was being blamed on that damn Rock and Roll music.
It was being filmed around the same time the 1955 movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" had it's beginning and ending altered to give the film a happy ending because the first public viewing before a test audience freaked them out ( they all walked out of the auditorium in total silence ).
And the Hayes Code was still in effect so they had to do something light hearted after showing an on screen electrocution of a nine year old girl.

[@wingsofhope2]

Patty McCormack was smiling the whole time she was being spanked.

[@lawrencemalloy7127]

wingsofhope2 no she wasn't she was screaming

[@dontaylor7315]

@@lawrencemalloy7127 Screaming and laughing at the same time. They were both laughing. It was a joke scene.

[@rhunter42dragon]

I noticed that too. They both seemed like they were having fun.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Indeed ! Both Patty & Nancy were smiling. It was obviously a playful spanking to lighten the mood for the audience who had just seen a movie that had rather a horrifying premise : a homicidal child !

[@HarryPotter87]

SHE gonna get it!!

[@jubalcalif9100]

She shouldn't have done the crime if she didn't want to do the time over her mom's lap ! Too bad there wasn't a hairbrush handy....

[@sweetcinnamonpnchkin]

Spanking is child abuse? Have you seen this movie? Spanking is the least the character deserved. Laugh please.

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

Is she still playing Rhoda at this point? I just think of it as the actors paying homage to their characters, rather than still "being" that character. Plus they're both smiling, and Ms McCormack appears to be half laughing. The "real" Rhoda got struck by lightning.

[@dontaylor7315]

@@strawberrysoulforever8336 Exactly. Rhoda Is dead and Christine is in the hospital with brain damage so the scene is between the actors not the characters. I suppose the director or screenwriter thought of it but I can easily imagine Kelly and McCormick cooking it up between themselves as a joke. The two were quite close during production.

[@UMIDGAMEPR]

1:09

[@johnrutka8658]

Cute playful ending. LOL!

[@silguimaraes5461]

I love this scene 0:50

[@lestermount3287]

the play the child does not die, I guess the movie needed the evil girl to die in the end

[@yuris3599]

this is not terror, but loved that movie

[@marilou3748]

I understand that this was done to lighten the mood

[@lucindaarmour4685]

Absolutely. It was a play and much of the cast had played these roles on stage. Audiences were very shaken by the play and film so they did the curtain call in this 'lighthearted' fashion to assure the audience that they were actors and its all fiction. Audiences get a chance to do this in theatres when actors bow and recieve applause. They wanted the same tone for the film - to break the tension.

[@nickroth9263]

Patty Gets What She Deserve!😞😓

[@danielveiga7909]

Somehow this was more satisfying than her getting struck by lightning lol

[@Anteroization]

at the era they "did this end for the sensors" no way would let release the movie at it was.

[@jonathondavis5644]

okay then it was kinda funny/weird at the last scene the little girl was getting spanked while you hear those "happy ending" trumpet music playing

[@chinabluewho]

In action/war movies when the opposing force is defeated and the other enemy people are killed/slaughtered the triumph music plays at the end, one persons hero is anothers villian , one persons freedom fighter is another person terrorist, the Boston Tea Party was an act of patriotism to the American colonies and an act of cowardly terrorism to the British forces.
To a little 8 year old boy watching the girl get spanked finally at the end must have been cathartic.

[@darrylthompson7453]

It's spanking time Rhoda!! Lol

[@ljuc]

that spanking at the end :D

[@markasflood124]

ljuc Didn't that happen in the 1985 remake

[@kaylawalker312]

ljuc 😞 sad

[@Texasjim2007]

It should be remembered that she's getting spanked after being killed by a lightning bolt so this is essentially Rhoda's final judgment in the afterlife when all the people she murdered
like Leroy have already been raised from the dead so she technically hasn't murdered anyone although she has defined her character as being a very mean and dishonest girl who's spanking will be repeated over and over again probably forever somewhere in cyberspace. :)

[@shedrikaddison5866]

Huh?

[@rhunter42dragon]

You're overthinking it.

[@OFFCODEV2]

In those dsys it was probably best to do a curtain call , probably saved that girl from alot of stuff by doing that lol

[@amarisdixon1680]

I love this movie

[@jsrosa1282]

@JubalCalif And did you know Patty would go on to play sweet and fun-loving Anne Brookes on the Three's Company spin-off, The Ropers?

[@16lucylover]

This was actually pretty funny If u havent seen the whole movie

[@JM-lw3nx]

Two things that were tacked onto this movie that ruined it: this scene and the lightning bolt.

[@TimSimms7]

You can thank the ridiculous Hollywood Production Code for that nonsense.

[@RaulAPinto]

They should have do a curtain call like this at the end of "Misery"

[@sidsimon5963]

Misery ? ? ? Really ? ? And have James Caan spank Kathy Bates ? That movie is one of my favorites and will always be on my "Desert Island" list of movies. If anything needed to be changed, they should have replaced Kathy Bates in the dessert tray scene with a random fellow female diner ( or dinette ) or possibly a large and strong effeminate guy with a man crush, eyes fixed on James Caan, walking slowly towards the poor guy and tell him "I'm your number one fan" while Lauren Bacall is completely oblivious to her client's discomfort.

[@RaulAPinto]

@@sidsimon5963 lol, I was joking

[@williampeacock6495]

i wonder if the ones play mother got permission from the girls real parents

[@ericquasney5251]

I saw what you did with those shoes .
Saw this 1 late night mostly drunk.
Out standing film. Highly recommend
👍. ⚖️

[@sweetcinnamonpnchkin]

and the child is left free to roam and set the town on fire! XD

[@Americaheritage]

@waivedwench Yep. Besides, the smiles on there faces as they did this last bit proves the fact :)

[@chloehopkins8550]

the ending clams me a bit after looking at the hole movie.lol:p

[@0ChildStar]

Funny and ouch!!!! XD

[@nigeldarcy8255]

Murders people: only gets a spank
The good old days

[@TimSimms7]

The absurd production code is more like it.

[@Disneyfan82]

She gets struck by lightning in the end. So you might say this is her eternal punishment wherever she is now.

[@JazzKeyboardist1]

if you think that is child abuse, please be a public school teacher for a few days,

[@simonovessimon4242]

excellent remark..theres a lot more bad seeds about these days

[@stitchesful]

This movie does makes one wonder if certain people are born soiciopathic. I'd like to think not, but who knows?

[@raymondfarr9003]

It would be interesting to know if the spanking continued after the credits ended and if so for how long .

[@leiaskywalker4216]

I believe it was just all for fun

[@raymondfarr9003]

Yes it probably was. But she was a spoilt brat . And certainly needed a good spanking

[@soapmode]

@@raymondfarr9003 She was an actress, you senile old fart.

[@alfredsuhrbier4166]

@@leiaskywalker4216 My teacher(an older woman) in the 2nd class gave me a spanking in front of the all class, that was not fun. What do you think?

[@leiaskywalker4216]

@@alfredsuhrbier4166 Not cool and really embarrassing 😕

[@CelticSaint]

Should do that to Greta!

[@hugh0221]

@Perlinator67 I know two of the child actors who played murderers: Macaulay Culkin (as Henry - The Good Son) and Chloë Grace Moretz (as Mindy/Hit-Girl - Kick-Ass series)

[@jimscribner8314]

Hit-Girl isn't really a murderer. She's a vigilante who kills murderers, most of the time in personal self-defense. Killing murderers to stop them from killing other people is what police officers and soldiers are paid to do by the government. Both of her parents were murdered like Batman's. Totally different situation.

[@janiceadkins7592]

The director told Patty McCormack, "Now ACT like you're getting a SPANKING!"

[@Mari-yd2xx]

Is that a boy or girl

[@stephcrane]

Was the "curtain call" with the spanking also in the Broadway show?

[@user-wn1hc4nj9y]

Haha the spanking was funny!!

[@user-vg7xr1px6x]

Sad ending

[@joyrys486]

I used to think spanking was child abuse.
Now I know it isn't, and that I was stupid for thinking that

[@johnharrington5688]

No you've just become a fucking idiot. It is child abuse. Reams of studies demonstrate it makes children's lives harder, does not improve behavior, and has negative impacts later in life. Of course, being a newly-minted stone cold moron, you probably think science is a hoax.

[@johnharrington5688]

I mean by "it makes children's lives harder" that spanking has been shown by numerous studies, including studies that are massive in sample size and longitudinal, actually to be of no reliable disciplinary use, in balance, and to result in an increased likelihood of social and emotional problems later in life. It is factually not effective, except in the short term, in even doing what it purports to do. Indeed, children who are spanked have been shown to be more likely, not less, to act out and disobey later. Yes, you cannot shove your opinion down my throat, and your opinion is of no consequence next to evidence.

[@lawrencemalloy7127]

u so right it is discipline not abuse but somebody's gonna call u names because I believe in spanking but it is discipline not abuse or violence

[@lawrencemalloy7127]

Minmi Happi your so welcome it does because I got it growing up and I am alright

[@lawrencemalloy9673]

yes it is discipline child abuse is something they came up with so u can't spank no more

[@QuantumRift]

As a kid I had a crush on Patty....and she's still hot.

[@leonablackwell4907]

She's old AF now 😂

[@dontaylor7315]

@@leonablackwell4907 A lot of us are. I'm only a couple years younger than Patty.

[@leonablackwell4907]

@@dontaylor7315 I see

[@dontaylor7315]

@@leonablackwell4907 I never had a crush on her though, my crush was Hayley Mills. Now I can't imagine why.

[@leonablackwell4907]

@@dontaylor7315 Awww that's sweet. Haley is a cutie tho.

[@Kari166]

@MaffiasAngelO88, sociopath/psychopath is more like it. XD