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12 Angry Men is a 1957 American legal drama film directed by Sidney Lumet in his feature directorial debut, adapted from a 1954 teleplay of the same name by Reginald Rose.
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12 Angry Men, American courtroom film drama, released in 1957, considered a classic of the genre. It marked the feature-film directorial debut of Sidney Lumet.
The film was adapted from a 1954 television play that aired on the series Studio One. It centres on the deliberations of 12 jurors serving on a murder case. Eleven jurors vote for a quick conviction, but one holdout (played by Henry Fonda) painstakingly tries to convince the others that the accused may be innocent, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
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•Studio: United Artists
•Director: Sidney Lumet
•Producers: Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose
•Writer: Reginald Rose
•Music: Kenyon Hopkins
•Running time: 96 minutes
•Henry Fonda (Davis/Juror #8)
•Martin Balsam (Juror #1)
•John Fiedler (Juror #2)
•Lee J. Cobb (Juror #3)
•E.G. Marshall (Juror #4)
•Jack Klugman (Juror #5)
- Lee Pfeiffer
Aug 20, 2022 · In the short term, "12 Angry Men," garnered all three men Oscar nominations. In the long term, it became a widely beloved classic and one of the dozen or so black-and-white films that...
- Devin Meenan
Jan 9, 2024 · 12 Angry Men centres perhaps the most decent of all Lumet’s characters in Henry Fonda’s Juror 8, initially the only member of the jury to vote not guilty, and the kind of lone dissenting voice against the mob that would pop up again and again in the director’s work.
He was nominated five times for Academy Awards: four for Best Director for the legal drama 12 Angry Men (1957), the crime drama Dog Day Afternoon (1975), the satirical drama Network (1976) and the legal thriller The Verdict (1982), and one for Best Adapted Screenplay for Prince of the City (1981).
Twelve Angry Men is an American courtroom drama written by Reginald Rose concerning the jury of a homicide trial. It was broadcast initially as a television play in 1954. The following year it was adapted for the stage. It was adapted for a film of the same name, directed by Sidney Lumet, and released in 1957.
Jan 28, 2020 · The counter argument, for over 60 years, has been Sidney Lumet’s 1957 debut feature 12 Angry Men. Set almost entirely in a jury room where the eponymous dozen deliberate, attack one another and expose their own prejudices over the fate of a young man accused of murder – and facing the death penalty if found guilty – it’s a textbook ...
