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12 Angry Men Henry Fonda (foreground, left) and Lee J. Cobb (right) in 12 Angry Men (1957), directed by Sidney Lumet.

12 Angry Men

film by Lumet [1957]
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12 Angry Men, American courtroom film drama, released in 1957, considered a classic of the genre. It marked the feature-film directorial debut of Sidney Lumet. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) The film was adapted from a 1954 television play that aired on the series Studio One. It centres on the deliberations of 12 jurors serving on a murder case. Eleven jurors vote for a quick conviction, but one holdout (played by Henry Fonda) painstakingly tries to convince the others that the accused may be innocent, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Lumet, already an experienced theatre and ...(100 of 179 words)

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