12 Angry Men (50th Anniversary Edition)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 4, 2008
- Originally Released: 1957
- Label: MGM
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Lee J. Cobb & Henry Fonda | |
Performer: | Martin Balsam, Jack Klugman, Jack Warden, E.G. Marshall & Ed Begley | |
Directed by | Sidney Lumet | |
Edited by | Carl Lerner | |
Screenwriting by | Reginald Rose | |
Composition by | Kenyon Hopkins | |
Art Direction by | Robert Markell | |
Produced by | Henry Fonda & Reginald Rose | |
Director of Photography: | Boris Kaufman |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A+ --
This movie is a masterpiece. That term gets thrown around a lot -- it's a very easy thing to say about great films like this -- but this movie is one of the best. This is one of the very few films that I will call perfect.
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ChrisStuckmann.com
The film leaves a tremendous impact.
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Variety
Fonda shines -- almost literally in a white suit -- as the soft-spoken, merciful Juror No. 8. -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 4.5/5 --
"12 Angry Men" puts the full range of human good and evil on display. It posits that, ultimately, the universe is benevolent, and our job, regarding each other, is to attempt with our best effort and greatest compassion to elucidate and clarify the truth.
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Epoch Times
With each new viewing I come away feelings as if I have peeled away another layer on the characters and their buried motives.
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Cinemaphile.org
Rating: 5/5 --
Too few films take on the art of arguing as a subject; we could certainly use more of them, but until then, Lumet's window into strained civic duty will continue to serve mightily.
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Time Out
A strangely realistic thriller.
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Time Out
Product Description:
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.
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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- Sales Rank: 114,346
- UPC: 027616097101
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