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: Not to be Repeated
Summary: 5 Stars
As I find myself now going for years without going to the movies, at times I have asked myself whether I've just lost enthusiasm for them, or perhaps it's just middle age.
No! We don't have this quality of film come to screen often anymore, being too worried about someone's virginity or frat-boy antics, or cheap horror.
As a prior reviewer so aptly stated, there isn't much required in the way of complication to make a great, classic movie. However, one must start with a great screenplay; this is sorely lacking now. Twelve Angry Men is a great example of how little is required when the right ingredients are there. I think there were maybe 4 sets, one of which was outside steps. The main set, the jury room, hosted almost all the movie, along with a small bathroom. The talents of the actors, and their mating with their parts, is in perfect balance. All are appropriate, all are superb.
Of course, time has marched on since this movie was released. The Rushes and Seans out there would condemn it with that hated word, 'liberal', but that's all right, too. Decency, which Fonda radiates in this part, always comes out on top. Yet another film shot in the twilight of black and white cinematography, and as master example at that.
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).Sidney 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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