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12 Angry Men (1957)


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Four and 1/2 out of Five

Movie

Rating: NR
Length: 96 minutes

Video

Widescreen 1.66:1 B&W

Audio

ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono

Captions

French, Spanish

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Plot

Twelve jurors are locked in a room to decide the fate of a young man accused of murder. If they find him guilty, he will get a death sentence. When they take their first vote, it is 11-1 for guilty. The lone holdout (Fonda) wants to do the job of looking and discussing all the evidence before sentencing a young man to death.

Pros

This is simply an amazing film. The jury consisted of men from all backgrounds and social standings. Sit back and watch how prejudices and agendas affect the jurors and how, bit by bit, they unravel.

Cons

It could have been a longer movie.

Extras

  • Original Theatrical Trailer

Recommendation

This is one of those "Must See" classics and shows how our legal system is "suppose" to work. This is proof that a good movie can be made without CGI and over-the-top fight scenes.

Director

Sidney Lumet   [Murder on the Orient Express, Network]

Actors

Martin Balsam - Juror #1
[All the President's Men, Cape Fear (1962), Murder on the Orient Express, Pscycho (1960), Tora! Tora! Tora!]
Ed Begley - Juror #10
[Hang 'Em High]
Ed Binns - Juror #6
[Judgment at Nuremberg, North by Northwest]
Lee J. Cobb - Juror #3
[The Exorcist]
John Fiedler - Juror #2
[True Grit]
Henry Fonda - Juror #8
[Battle of the Bulge, The Grapes of Wrath, Midway, My Name is Nobody, Once Upon a Time in the West]
Jack Klugman - Juror #5
E.G. Marshall - Juror #4
[Absolute Power, The Bridge at Remagen, Creepshow, Nixon, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Superman II]
Joseph Sweeney - Juror #9
George Voskovec - Juror #11
Jack Warden - Juror #7
[All the President's Men, The Presidio]
Robert Webber - Juror #12
[The Dirty Dozen, Midway, Revenge of the Pink Panther]

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