One of Bad's most notorious sequences involved a client who wants her constantly crying infant murdered. Before the hired killer can arrive, the mother throws the baby from a high-rise window herself—a moment that pushed the film's already grotesque black comedy into genuinely shocking territory. Perry King later recalled that he, Carroll Baker, and Susan Tyrrell objected so strongly to the scripted scene that they threatened to walk off the production. Director Jed Johnson reportedly promised them it would not be filmed, but King said the sequence was shot only after the principal cast had completed its work, effectively preventing the actors from stopping it without abandoning the film altogether. King admitted that he hated the scene, even while acknowledging that its extremity suited the film's deliberately monstrous universe.
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AI concept artworkArchive Record · 1970s
The Baby-Throwing Scene That Nearly Drove Bad's Stars Off the Production
Andy Warhol's Bad / 1970s
One of Bad's most notorious sequences involved a client who wants her constantly crying infant murdered. Before the hired killer can arrive, the mother throws the baby from a high-rise window herself—a moment that pushed the film's already grotesque black comedy into genuinely shocking territory. Perry King later recalled that he, Carroll Baker, and Susan Tyrrell objected so strongly to the scripted scene that they threatened to walk off the production. Director Jed Johnson reportedly promised them it would not be filmed, but King said the sequence was shot only after the principal cast had completed its work, effectively preventing the actors from stopping it without abandoning the film altogether. King admitted that he hated the scene, even while acknowledging that its extremity suited the film's deliberately monstrous universe.
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