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- Drama
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- 20th Century50s
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- New YorkCourtroom
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12 Angry Men, 1957
English
USA
Profile of 12 Angry Men
12 Angry Men can be described as tense, clever, and sincere. The plot revolves around legal action, idealism, and legal issues. The main genre is drama. In terms of style, 12 Angry Men stars an ensemble cast and is talky. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. 12 Angry Men is set, at least in part, in a courtroom. It is located in New York. It takes place in the 1950s. Visually, 12 Angry Men is black and white. It is adapted from a play. The movie has received attention for being a Berlin festival winner, a classic, and a masterpiece.
Summary of 12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet's directorial debut is a snapshot of the American judicial system in action. Twelve average New York males convene in a very small jury room on a very hot day in order to reach a verdict in a murder trial. Almost everyone wants to vote guilty and get on with their lives except for Juror No. 8 (Henry Fonda), a conscientious citizen who insists on establishing reasonable doubt. Arguments are made, cigarettes are smoked, murder weapons examined, diagrams drawn, and prejudices revealed. Firm opinions weaken and reverse; voices get raised, the clock ticks, and a ghetto kid's life hangs in the balance.
Lumet's direction and camerawork steadily builds pressure into the plot. Things start out casual, but wind up so close and tight you can count the pores on the actors' noses. Fonda is good in a role well-suited to his extra-large sense of human dignity but the stealth giant in this actors dozen is the ferocious Lee J. Cobb. Jack Klugman, E.G. Marshall, Martin Balsam, Ed Begley, and Jack Warden play some of the other jurors, and a better assemblage of grizzled method actors shouting at each other won't likely come again. 12 Angry Men was originally written for television, it is a true classic of the anti-McCarthy message era, and is not to be missed.
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| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | April 1957 |
| Runtime: | 96 min |
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as Juror #8
as Juror #3
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- 04.November.2011
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- by: grebnedlog
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- 13.January.2011
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- by: dh65
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