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Overview

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Director:
Sidney Lumet
Writers:
Reginald Rose (story)
Reginald Rose (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
29 July 1957 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
Life Is In Their Hands -- Death Is On Their Minds! more
Plot:
A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 6 nominations more
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(6 articles)
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No Dissonance more

Cast

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Directed by
Sidney Lumet 
 
Writing credits
Reginald Rose (story)

Reginald Rose (screenplay)

Produced by
Henry Fonda .... producer
George Justin .... associate producer
Reginald Rose .... producer
 
Original Music by
Kenyon Hopkins 
 
Cinematography by
Boris Kaufman (director of photography)
 
Film Editing by
Carl Lerner 
 
Art Direction by
Robert Markel 
 
Makeup Department
Herman Buchman .... makeup artist
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Don Kranze .... assistant director (as Donald Kranze)
 
Sound Department
James A. Gleason .... sound
Al Gramaglia .... sound re-recording mixer (uncredited)
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Saul Midwall .... camera operator
 
Music Department
Kenyon Hopkins .... conductor
 
Other crew
Faith Hubley .... script supervisor (as Faith Elliott)
 
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Twelve Angry Men (USA) (alternative spelling)
Doce hombres en pugna (Argentina) (Venezuela) [es]
дБЕММЮДЖЮРЭ ПЮГЦМЕБЮММШУ ЛСФВХМ (Soviet Union: Russian title) [ru]
12 Homens e uma Sentença (Brazil) [pt]
12 edsvurna män (Sweden) [sv]
12 hombres en pugna (Mexico) [es]
12 hombres sin piedad (Spain) [es]
A tizenkét dühös ember (Hungary) [hu]
Die 12 Geschworenen (Austria) [de]
Die zwölf Geschworenen (West Germany) [de]
Doce hombres sin piedad (Spain) [es]
Douze hommes en colère (France) [fr]
Doze Homens e Uma Sentença (Brazil) [pt]
Doze Homens em Fúria (Portugal) [pt]
Dvanaest gnevnih ljudi (Serbia) [sr]
Dwunastu gniewnych ludzi (Poland) [pl]
La parola ai giurati (Italy) [it]
Oi 12 enorkoi (Greece) [el]
Tolv vrede mænd (Denmark) [da]
Valamiesten ratkaisu (Finland) [fi]
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Runtime:
96 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
New York, USA

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
All but three minutes of the film was shot inside the bare and confining, sixteen by twenty-four foot "jury room". more
Goofs:
Crew or equipment visible: When Juror #8 is imitating the old man going to the door, as he is completing the first leg of his walk the shadow of the camera following him is clearly visible on the floor by his feet. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
[In a tedious manner, sounding bored and tired]
Judge: To continue, you've listened to a long and complex case: murder in the first degree. Premeditated murder is the most serious charge tried in our criminal courts . You've listened to the testimony, you've had the law read to you and interpreted as it applies in this case...
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Mork & Mindy: Twelve Angry Appliances (#3.12)" (1981) more

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103 out of 121 people found the following comment useful:-
No Dissonance, 26 April 2001
Author: tedg (tedg@FilmsFolded.com) from Virginia Beach

This film deserves to be on anyone's list of top films. My problem is that it is so perfect, so seamlessly polished, it is hard to appreciate the individual excellences.

The acting is top notch. I believe that monologue acting is quite a bit simpler than real reactive ensemble acting. Most of what we see today is monologues pretending to be conversations. But in this film, we have utter mastery of throwing emotions. Once the air becomes filled with human essence, it is hard to not get soaked ourselves as the camera moves through the thick atmosphere. Yes, there are slight differences in how each actor projects (Fonda internally, Balsam completely on his skin...) but the ensemble presents one vision to the audience.

The writing is snappy too. You can tell it was worked and worked and worried, going through several generations. It is easy to be mesmerized by this writing and acting, and miss the rare accomplishment of the camera-work. This camera is so fluid, you forget you are in one room. It moves from being a human observer, to being omniscient, to being a target. It is smart enough to seldom center on the element of most importance, so expands the field to all men.

This is very hard. Very hard, to make the camera human. So much easier to do what we see today -- acknowledge the machinery and jigger with it. Do we have a filmmaker today who could do this?

Ted's Evaluation -- 4 of 3: Every cineliterate person should experience this.

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