12 Angry Men (50th Anniversary Edition)
by Sidney Lumet
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Actor: Ed Begley, Edward Binns, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, Rudy BondDirector: Sidney Lumet
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Boris Kaufman
Composer: Kenyon Hopkins
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: Black & White, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of 12 Angry Men (50th Anniversary Edition)
Movie Review: A masterful assembly of actors
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great film with (in my opinion) the most brilliant collection of actors ever assembled.
All but 3 minutes of this film takes place in the confines of the small jury deliberation room. The 12 white men of the jury retire to the room after the close of a murder trial. The verdict is a shoe-in because as far as the foreman and jury members are concerned the young man on trial (who appears to be Hispanic or Italian) is obviously guilty. But wait - while the foreman goes through the mere formality of taking the men's votes everyone is shocked to hear one man dare to vote NOT-guilty. This is when the story starts getting as hot as the jury room the men are meeting in. It isn't that the holdout is convinced of the man's innocence, but he feels that since the defendant's life is at stake (the death penalty is automatically attached to a guilty verdict) the case should at least be discussed before a verdict is returned to the judge.
The casting is flawless. Henry Fonda is the lone holdout, calm, cool and collected. The other jurors consist of hothead, guilt-ridden, Lee J. Cobb; Let's get out of here so I can get to the ball game, Jack Warden; life-long bigot, Ed Begley; John Fiedler, who's just as mousy as the character of Piglet that he voices for Disney; I didn't ask for this foreman job, Martin Balsam; former kid from the same slums as the defendant, Jack Klugman; methodical stock broker, E.G. Marshall; elderly, sharp as a tack, Joseph Sweeney; Everyman, blue-collar, Ed Binns; East European immigrant, proud to be an American, George Voskovec; and I'll just go with the flow, doodler, Robert Webber. Though I'd never heard of the last three actors before, Voskovec and Webber apparently had long and successful careers in TV (source IMDB). Sweeney, as juror #9 is one of my favorites in this film. He plays the most elderly of the jurors but his observations and uncanny memory lend needed support to Fonda's character.
If you haven't seen this film it's about time to did yourself the favor of doing so. If you have teenagers at home, I recommend you invite them to watch it with you and discuss it afterwords.
Summary of 12 Angry Men (50th Anniversary Edition)
Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion? It's a case of seemingly overwhelming evidence against a teenager accused of killing his father in "one of the best pictures ever made" (The Hollywood Reporter).System Requirements:Running Time: 96 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/FIGHTING THE SYSTEM Rating: PG UPC: 027616097101 Manufacturer No: M109710Sidney Lumet's directorial debut remains a tense, atmospheric (though slightly manipulative and stagy) courtroom thriller, in which the viewer never sees a trial and the only action is verbal. As he does in his later corruption commentaries such as Serpico or Q & A, Lumet focuses on the lonely one-man battles of a protagonist whose ethics alienate him from the rest of jaded society. As the film opens, the seemingly open-and-shut trial of a young Puerto Rican accused of murdering his father with a knife has just concluded and the 12-man jury retires to their microscopic, sweltering quarters to decide the verdict. When the votes are counted, 11 men rule guilty, while one--played by Henry Fonda, again typecast as another liberal, truth-seeking hero--doubts the obvious. Stressing the idea of "reasonable doubt," Fonda slowly chips away at the jury, who represent a microcosm of white, male society--exposing the prejudices and preconceptions that directly influence the other jurors' snap judgments. The tight script by Reginald Rose (based on his own teleplay) presents each juror vividly using detailed soliloquies, all which are expertly performed by the film's flawless cast. Still, it's Lumet's claustrophobic direction--all sweaty close-ups and cramped compositions within a one-room setting--that really transforms this contrived story into an explosive and compelling nail-biter. --Dave McCoy
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