12 angry men

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A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system as riveting as it is sparse. The iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose's teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the initially dissenting member of a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father....

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Main Author: Hopkins, Kenyon (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Orion-Nova Productions (Firm), United Artists Corporation, Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011 (Director), Rose, Reginald (Producer, Screenwriter), Fonda, Henry, 1905-1982 (Producer, Actor), Kaufman, Boris (Cinematographer), Lerner, Carl (Film editor), Markell, Robert J., 1924-2020 (Artistic director), Cobb, Lee J., 1911-1976 (Actor), Begley, Ed, 1901-1970 (Actor), Marshall, E. G., 1914-1998 (Actor), Warden, Jack (Actor), Balsam, Martin, 1919-1996 (Actor), Fiedler, John, 1925-2005 (Actor), Klugman, Jack (Actor), Binns, Edward, 1916-1990 (Actor), Sweeney, Joseph, -1963 (Actor), Voskovec, Jiří, 1905-1981 (Actor), Webber, Robert, 1924-1989 (Actor)
Format: DVD
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2011]
Edition:Two-DVD special ed.
Series:Criterion collection 591.
Subjects:
Rose, Reginald > Film adaptations.
Trials (Murder) > Drama
Jurors > Drama.
Abused children > Drama.
Parricide > Drama.
Capital punishment > United States > Drama.
Legal films
Feature films
Table of Contents:
  • Special features: The television version
  • "12 angry men: from television to the big screen"
  • ival interviews with Lumet; new interview about the director with writer Walter Bernstein; new interview with Simon about television writer Reginald Rose; new interview with cinematographer John Bailey.

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