Tom Gorman Stenographer as Stenographer uncredited. James Kelly Guard as Guard uncredited. Sidney Lumet. Reginald Rose story screenplay. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The defense and the prosecution have rested, and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open-and-shut case of murder soon becomes a detective story that presents a succession of clues creating doubt, and a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, AND each other.
Based on the play, all of the action takes place on the stage of the jury room. Did you know Edit. Trivia At the beginning of the film, the cameras are all positioned above eye level and mounted with wide-angle lenses to give the appearance of greater distance between the subjects. As the film progresses the cameras slip down to eye level. By the end of the film, nearly all of it is shot below eye level, in close-up and with telephoto lenses to increase the encroaching sense of claustrophobia.
Goofs Within the last half hour of the movie, the clock on the wall in the jury room can be seen indicating Several minutes later, E. Marshall states that it is "a quarter after six". Several minutes after that, the wall clock is seen again, but still shows Still later, when Lee J. Cobb leans over the table after he tears up the snapshot from his wallet, his watch can be seen indicating Quotes Juror 8 : Let me ask you this: Do you really think the boy'd shout out a thing like that so the whole neighborhood could hear him?
Crazy credits At the end of the film, the actors are billed in order of their juror numbers; thus Henry Fonda , although the star of the film, appears 8th. User reviews 1. Top review. Simple but great. It is proof that, for a film to be great, it does not need extensive scenery, elaborate costumes or expensive special effects - just superlative acting.
The twelve angry men are the twelve jurors of a murder case. An eighteen-year-old boy from a slum background is accused of stabbing his father to death and faces the electric chair if convicted.
Eleven of the men believe the boy to be guilty; only one Henry Fonda has doubts. Can he manage to convince the others? The court case provides only a framework, however. The film's greatness lies in its bringing-together of twelve different men who have never met each other before and the interaction of their characters as each man brings his own background and life experiences into the case. Thus, we have the hesitant football coach Martin Balsam , the shy, uncertain bank clerk John Fiedler , the aggressive call company director Lee J.
Cobb , the authoritative broker E. Marshall , the self-conscious slum dweller Jack Klugman , the solid, dependable painter Edward Binns , the selfish salesman Jack Warden , the calm, collected architect Fonda , the thoughtful, observant older man Joseph Sweeney , the racially bigoted garage owner Ed Begley , the East European watchmaker George Voskovec and the beefcake advertising agent Robert Webber who has plenty of chat and little else. Almost the entire film takes place in just one room, the jury room, where the men have retired to consider their verdict.
The viewer finds him or herself sweating it out with the jury as the heat rises, literally and metaphorically, among the men as they make their way towards their final verdict. Other most ostensible symptoms of Michael Mathews' seasoned direction lies in the synchronization and rapidity of dialogue, as well as a few choice positioning of characters.
The casting of African-American Dennis Renard in a play set in the '50s, is an example of racially inclusive casting, while characterizing him as the slum-born Juror Five demonstrates other common injustices. A compassionate German juror contradicts everything World War II told Americans about Nazis, and simple men who just want to go to a ball game represent the ugliness of selfishness and nonchalance. Stephen Gifford's scenic design is very conducive to a cramped, vintage setting, alternately crackling with electricity and then cooling down the tension with rain.
Kate Bergh's meticulous costume design gives each man a distinct persona to inhabit. The fatherly, temperamental Juror Three wears a double-breasted suit and broad tie, too old fashioned for younger jurors; the German watchmaking Juror Eleven is dressed in a neat, sophisticated vest; Juror Eight, the hero of the story, wears a loose, airy, tan suit and thin tie, contrasting every other man in the room.
Previous Next. Setting A Jury Room And That's It Ever since people started making movies, it's like some of them try to show off how great they are by taking an incredibly limited setting and showing what they can do inside that setting. Cobb Juror 4 E. What's Up With the Ending? Shock Rating.
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