12 Angry Men
original film poster
Directed by	Sidney Lumet
Produced by	Henry Fonda Reginald Rose
Written by	Reginald Rose
Starring	Henry Fonda Lee J. Cobb E.G. Marshall Martin Balsam John Fiedler Jack Klugman Ed Binns Jack Warden Joseph Sweeney Ed Begley George Voskovec Robert Webber
Music by	Kenyon Hopkins
Cinematography	Boris Kaufman
Editing by	Carl Lerner
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	13 April 1957
Running time	96 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$340,000 (estimated)
IMDb profile

12 Angry Men (released in the UK as Twelve Angry Men) is a drama film produced in 1957 by director Sidney Lumet based on the play 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose. It is about a jury member who must try to persuade the other 11 members to acquit the suspect on trial on the basis of reasonable doubt. The film is notable for its use of a single set: with the exception of three minutes of screen-time split between the beginning and the end and two short scenes in an adjoining washroom, the entire movie takes place in the jury room. 12 Angry Men may refer to: 12 Angry Men (play) 12 Angry Men (1954 film) 12 Angry Men (1957 film), directed by Sidney Lumet Ek Ruka Hua Faisla, 1986 Hindi remake directed by Basu Chatterjee 12 Angry Men (1997 film), directed by William Friedkin 12 razgnevannyh muzhchin, 2007 Russian remake... Image File history File links 12_angry_men. ... Portrait of Sidney Lumet, May 7, 1939. ... Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was a highly acclaimed Academy Award-winning American film actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. ... This article or section is missing needed references or citation of sources. ... This article or section is missing needed references or citation of sources. ... Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was a highly acclaimed Academy Award-winning American film actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. ... Lee J. Cobb Lee J. Cobb (December 8, 1911 – February 11, 1976) was an American actor. ... Everett Gunnar Marshall (June 18, 1910 - August 24, 1998) was an American actor who starred in 1957 movie 12 Angry Men. Marshall was born in Owatonna, Minnesota. ... Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996) was an American actor. ... John Donald Fiedler (February 3, 1925 – June 25, 2005) was an American voice actor and character actor in stage, film, television and radio. ... Jack Klugman (born Jacob Joachim Klugman on April 27, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American television and movie actor. ... Edward Binns (September 12, 1916-December 4, 1990) was a stage and film actor. ... Jack Warden (September 18, 1920 – July 19, 2006) was an American actor. ... Joseph Sweeney (July 26, 1884 - November 25, 1963) is an American actor whose most famous role was as Juror #9 in the famous film 12 Angry Men. ... Edward James Begley (March 25, 1901 – April 28, 1970) was an American film actor. ... Jiří (George) Voskovec made his first stage appearance in his native Czechoslovakia. ... Robert Webber (October 14, 1924 - May 19, 1989) was an actor who starred as Juror #12 in the 1957 hit movie 12 Angry Men. ... Boris Kaufman (Russian: ; August 24, 1897-June 24, 1980) was an Oscar-winning (1954) cinematographer. ... The current United Artists logo (a variant was used during the 1980s). ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 103rd day of the year (104th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... A drama film is a film that depends mostly on in-depth character development, interaction, and highly emotional themes. ... // October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens. ... Portrait of Sidney Lumet, May 7, 1939. ... 12 Angry Men is a play by Reginald Rose. ... This article or section is missing needed references or citation of sources. ... Reasonable Doubt is the debut album by East Coast rapper Jay-Z. It was released on June 25, 1996 by Roc-A-Fella Records in the United States and Northwestside Records in the United Kingdom. ...

The ensemble cast includes Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, John Fiedler, E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Ed Binns, Martin Balsam, Jack Klugman, George Voskovec, Robert Webber, and Joseph Sweeney (his last appearance in motion pictures). An ensemble cast is a cast in which the principal performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance in a dramatic production. ... Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was a highly acclaimed Academy Award-winning American film actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. ... Lee J. Cobb Lee J. Cobb (December 8, 1911 – February 11, 1976) was an American actor. ... Edward James Begley (March 25, 1901 – April 28, 1970) was an American film actor. ... John Donald Fiedler (February 3, 1925 – June 25, 2005) was an American voice actor and character actor in stage, film, television and radio. ... Everett Gunnar Marshall (June 18, 1910 - August 24, 1998) was an American actor who starred in 1957 movie 12 Angry Men. Marshall was born in Owatonna, Minnesota. ... Jack Warden (September 18, 1920 – July 19, 2006) was an American actor. ... Edward Binns (September 12, 1916-December 4, 1990) was a stage and film actor. ... Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996) was an American actor. ... Jack Klugman (born Jacob Joachim Klugman on April 27, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American television and movie actor. ... Jiří (George) Voskovec made his first stage appearance in his native Czechoslovakia. ... Robert Webber (October 14, 1924 - May 19, 1989) was an actor who starred as Juror #12 in the 1957 hit movie 12 Angry Men. ... Joseph Sweeney (July 26, 1884 - November 25, 1963) is an American actor whose most famous role was as Juror #9 in the famous film 12 Angry Men. ...

Plot summary

The story begins after closing arguments have been presented in a homicide case, as the judge is giving his instructions to the jury. As in any American criminal case, the twelve jurors must unanimously decide on a verdict of "guilty" or "not guilty". (In the American justice system, failure to reach an unanimous verdict, a so-called "hung jury", results in a mistrial.) The question they are deciding is whether the defendant, an 18-year-old man, murdered his father. The jury is further instructed that a guilty verdict will be accompanied by a mandatory death sentence (something that could not happen in the current American legal system). The twelve move to the jury room, where they begin to become acquainted with each others' personalities and discuss the case. The plot of the film revolves around their difficulty in reaching an unanimous verdict. Throughout their deliberation, not a single juror calls another by name because their names are unknown to each other; however at the end, Sweeney's and Fonda's characters tell their last names (McArdle and Davis, respectively). A closing argument, summation, or summing up is the concluding statement of each partys counsel (often called an attorney in the United States) reiterating the important arguments for the trier of fact, often the jury, in a court case. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Criminal law (also known as penal law) is the body of law that regulates governmental sanctions (such as imprisonment and/or fines) as retaliation for crimes against the social order. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Mistrial. ... Legal deliberation is the process in which a jury in a trial in court discusses in private the findings of the court and decides by vote with which argument to agree of either opposing side. ...

Production

The jurors, with #8 (Henry Fonda) and #3 (Lee J. Cobb) in the front

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The success of the TV film resulted in a film adaptation. Sidney Lumet, whose prior directorial credits included dramas for television productions such as the Alcoa Hour and Studio One, was recruited by Henry Fonda and Rose to direct. 12 Angry Men was Lumet's first feature film, and for Fonda and Rose, who co-produced the film, it was their first and only roles as film producers. Fonda later stated that he would never again produce a film. Portrait of Sidney Lumet, May 7, 1939. ... A reel of film, which predates digital cinematography. ...

The filming was completed after a short but rigorous rehearsal schedule in less than three weeks on a budget of about $350,000.

At the beginning of the film, the cameras are positioned above eye level and mounted with wide-angle lenses to give the appearance of greater depth between subjects, but as the film progresses the focal length of the lenses is gradually increased. By the end of the film, nearly everyone is shown in closeup using telephoto lenses from a lower angle, which decreases or "shortens" depth of field. Lumet, who began his career as a director of photography, stated that his intention in using these techniques with cinematographer Boris Kaufman was to create a nearly palpable claustrophobia. One of Canons most popular wide-angle lenses - 17-40 mm f/4 L retrofocus zoom lens. ... The focal point F and focal length f of a positive (convex) lens, a negative (concave) lens, a concave mirror, and a convex mirror. ... In photography and cinematography, a telephoto lens is a lens whose focal length is significantly longer than the focal length of a normal lens. ... In optics, particularly film and photography, the depth of field (DOF) is the distance in front of and beyond the subject that appears to be in focus. ... Boris Kaufman (Russian: ; August 24, 1897-June 24, 1980) was an Oscar-winning (1954) cinematographer. ... Claustrophobia is an anxiety disorder that involves the fear of enclosed or confined spaces. ...

Responses

Critical responses

On its first release, 12 Angry Men received critical acclaim. A. H. Weiler of The New York Times wrote "It makes for taut, absorbing, and compelling drama that reaches far beyond the close confines of its jury room setting." His observation of the 12 men was that "their dramas are powerful and provocative enough to keep a viewer spellbound." However, it was not a popular success: the advent of color and widescreen productions resulted in the film receiving a disappointing box office performance. The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ...

Today, the film is viewed as a "classic" and is highly regarded from both a critical and popular viewpoint: Roger Ebert lists it as one of his "Great Movies," and it has been consistently ranked in the top 14 of the Internet Movie Database Top 250 List. It also has a 97% rating on both critics and users polls at the site Rotten Tomatoes. The American Film Institute named Juror #8, played by Henry Fonda, the 28th greatest movie hero of the 20th century, named 12 Angry Men the 42nd most inspiring film, and recently, named it the 87th best film of the past hundred years. Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ... The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was a highly acclaimed Academy Award-winning American film actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. ... AFIs 100 Years. ... 100 Years. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with AFIs 100 Years. ...

Awards

The film was nominated for Academy Awards in the categories of Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. In all of these categories, the film was eclipsed by The Bridge on the River Kwai, which won seven Academy Awards that year. At the Berlin International Film Festival, the film won the Golden Bear Award. Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... The Academy Award for Directing is an accolade given to the person that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feels was best director of the past year. ... // The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Awards, awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which are voted on by others within the industry. ... The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. ... The Bridge on the River Kwai is an Academy Award-winning 1957 World War II war film based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï by French writer Pierre Boulle. ... One of the A festivals in Europe. ...

Remake and other adaptations

Film and TV

12 Angry Men was remade for television in 1997. Directed by William Friedkin, the remake stars George C. Scott, James Gandolfini, Tony Danza, William Petersen, Ossie Davis, Hume Cronyn, Courtney B. Vance, and Jack Lemmon. In this production, the judge is a woman and four of the jurors are African American. (In interviews, producers said they decided against putting a woman in the jury because they didn't want to change the title.) Still, most of the action and dialogue of the film is identical to the original. Modernizations include a prohibition on smoking in the jury room, the changing of references to income and pop culture figures, more dialogue relating to race, and occasional profanity. 12 Angry Men is a 1997 television film directed by William Friedkin, based on the play 12 Angry Men and previous films. ... The year 1997 in film involved some significant events. ... William Friedkin (born August 29, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American movie and television director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing The Exorcist and The French Connection in the early 1970s. ... George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 - September 22, 1999) was a stage and film actor, director, and producer. ... James R. Gandolfini (born September 18, 1961) is a three-time Emmy award winning Italian-American actor known for multifaceted portrayals of conscientious yet often inherently sinister characters. ... Tony Danza. ... William Louis Petersen (born February 21, 1953) is an American actor, best known for playing Gil Grissom on CSI. // Petersen was born in Evanston, Illinois of Danish ancestry. ... Ossie Davis in The Green Pastures, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1951 Ossie Davis (December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an African American film actor, director and social activist. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Courtney Vance Vance with wife Angela Bassett Courtney B. Vance (born March 12, 1960) is an American actor. ... John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001), better known as Jack Lemmon, was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... Look up Profanity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

The film's premise has been utilized (both dramatically and comically) in several TV shows, including:

• 3rd Rock from the Sun, "Eleven Angry Men and One Dick", 1997 (the defendant is obviously guilty of telemarketing fraud, but the defendant has a friendly personality and Dick can't bring himself to send him to jail.)
• 7th Heaven, The WB, "Twelve Angry People", 2000 (the jury foreman, Reverend Eric Camden, argues for an acquittal)
• All in the Family, "Edith's Jury Duty", 1971 (Edith as a lone dissenter in a murder trial)
• Charmed,The WB, "Trial By Magic", 2002 (Phoebe must convince a jury that a man is innocent, despite overwhelming evidence against him.)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS, "Eleven Angry Jurors", 2004
• Cupid, ABC, "Hung Jury", 1998
• The Dead Zone, USA Network, "Unreasonable Doubt", 2002
• The Dick Van Dyke Show, CBS, "One Angry Man", 1962
• Doogie Howser, M.D., ABC, "Eleven Angry People. ..and Vinnie", 1993
• Doordarshan (TV Movie), India, "Ek Ruka Hua Faisla", 1986, directed by Basu Chatterjee^[1]
• Family Matters, ABC, "The Jury," 1996
• Hancock's Half Hour, BBC, "Twelve Angry Men", 1959
• Here's Lucy, CBS, "Lucy and Joan Rivers Do Jury Duty", 1973
• Hey Arnold!, Nickelodeon, "False Alarm", 1997
• Judge John Deed, BBC, "One Angry Man", 2006^[2]
• King of the Hill, Fox, "Nine Pretty Darn Angry Men", 1998
• Matlock, ABC, "The Juror," 1993
• Malcolm in the Middle, Fox, "Jury Duty", 2002. (Lois consistently flips her opinion back and forth to keep the other jurors in the room to talk about the case.)
• Monk, USA Network, "Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty", 2006
• My Wife and Kids, ABC, "Jury Duty", 2003 (Jay is the only woman on the jury. The rest of the men want to get it over with because of the 'Godfather' marathon that was to be shown later that day. Jay votes not guilty in the initial vote.)
• The Odd Couple, ABC, "The Jury Story", 1970
• Pepper Ann, ABC, "One Angry Woman", 2000 (Pepper Ann's mother has to decide whether or not a child should receive a strict community service sentence after he allegedly spat on a bank's camera. A notable similarity was the line 'I spit on you! I spit on you!' from said episode and the line from 12 Angry Men: "I'll kill him! I'll kill him!").
• The Simpsons, FOX, "The Boy Who Knew Too Much," 1994. When Homer is on the jury for a man who seems completely guilty, he purposely puts in the only "not guilty" vote so that he'll be sequestered at a nice hotel. As it turns out, he was right and the man really was innocent.
• The Tracy Morgan Show, NBC, "A Call to Duty", 2004
• Veronica Mars, UPN, "One Angry Veronica", 2005
• Yes Dear, CBS, "Mr. Fix It", 2001 (Christine drags out the case so she will not have to go home to her kids)
• In an episode of Happy Days, Fonzie employs his knowledge of motorcycles to prove that a man accused of stealing a woman's purse and escaping on a motorcycle was in fact innocent.

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Theater

Main article: 12 Angry Men (play)

The screenplay has been published, and Rose wrote several stage adaptations of the story. In 1964 Leo Genn appeared in the play on the London stage. In other theatrical adaptations in which female actors are cast the play is retitled 12 Angry Jurors or 12 Angry Women. 12 Angry Men is a play by Reginald Rose. ... Leo John Genn (August 9, 1905 – January 26, 1978) was an English actor on stage and in films. ...

In 2004, the Roundabout Theatre Company presented a Broadway production of the play, starring Boyd Gaines as a more combative Juror No. 8, with James Rebhorn (No. 4), Philip Bosco (No. 3), and Robert Prosky as the voice of the judge. In 2007, 12 Angry Men ran on a national theater tour with Richard Thomas and George Wendt starring as Jurors No. 8 and No. 1, respectively. The Roundabout Theatre Company is a non-profit, subscription based theatre company, based in New York City. ... Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... Boyd Gaines is an American actor born on May 11, 1953. ... James Rebhorn (born September 1, 1948) is an American character actor who has appeared in over one hundred television shows, feature films, and plays. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Robert Prosky (born Robert Porzuczek on December 13, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American character actor who has appeared in such films as Christine, The Natural, Broadcast News, Green Card, Hoffa, Rudy and Dead Man Walking. ... Richard Thomas (born June 13, 1951) is an American actor, best known as John-Boy on the TV series, The Waltons. ... George Robert Wendt (born October 17, 1948) is an American actor best known for the role of Norm Peterson on the television show Cheers. ...

Other

The movie has been used in management seminars as a case study in team building and leadership. The resolution-of-conflict techniques presented in 12 Angry Men have been analyzed and applied to employee efforts to collaborate among themselves to handle issues. The goal is to minimize or eliminate the inefficient micromanagement by company executives in areas in which they are unskilled and/or unknowledgable. This use is most widely seen in the Total Quality Management system used by the U.S. government as well as numerous private sector corporations. ...

In a May 26, 1999 piece in the New York Times titled "Importance of Being Persuasive; Daimler-Chrysler Merger Made an Art of Making a Case" by Youssef M. Ibrahim, Jurgen E. Schrempp the ex-CEO of DaimlerChrysler who oversaw the merger of the two companies stated about the movie: 'It helps me put my arguments into words, focus on people'.

Characters

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See also

• Jury
• Jury nullification
• Minority influence

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Notes

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References

• Making Movies, by Sidney Lumet. (c) 1995, ISBN 0-679-75660-4
• Phoebe C. Ellsworth. "Twelve Angry Men," Michigan Law Review, May 2003 v101 i6 p1387(21) (online at Infotrac), in depth analysis compared with research on actual jury behavior.
• The New York Times, April 15, 1957, "12 Angry Men", review by A. H. Weiler
• Readings on Twelve Angry Men, by Russ Munyan, Greenhaven Press, 2000, ISBN 0-7377-0313-X

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External links

• 12 Angry Men at the Internet Movie Database
• Notes on the dramatic structure for 12 Angry Men from The Claperboard