12 Angry Men (Criterion Collection)
Life is in their hands. Death is on their minds.
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 22, 2011
- Originally Released: 1957
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Henry Fonda & Lee J. Cobb | |
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:
Lumet in his first film records it as a meticulous laboratory experiment, a clammy orchestra
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CinePassion
A still-timely look at social and class warfare, as filtered through the deliberations of a jury in the case of an 18-year-old accused of stabbing his father to death.
Chicago Sun-Times
[T]he textures of the film actively transform this righteous template into a bristly, suspenseful, heroic firefight...
Sight and Sound
...This is a film where tension comes from personality conflict, dialogue and body language....The movie plays like a textbook for directors interested in how lens choices affect mood...
Chicago Sun-Times
Fonda shines -- almost literally in a white suit -- as the soft-spoken, merciful Juror No. 8. -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
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
The film leaves a tremendous impact.
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Variety
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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