12 Angry Men

Cast

Henry Fonda, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb View All

Crew

Sidney Lumet (Director), Reginald Rose (Screenplay), Reginald Rose (Story) View All

Released: Apr. 9th, 1957

Runtime: 1 hour, 36 minutes

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

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Gideon58
We think we know exactly what's going to happen in that jury room and very little of this story played out the way I expected it to and, boy, what a pleasure that was. The first clue we have as to what is going on actually comes from Lumet, not Rose or the other actors.

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