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  12 Angry Men   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
12 Angry Men was not only one of the best debuts ever, but would in many ways set the tone for the career of one of the best directors.
12 Angry Men was a play, but the technique prevents it from falling flat like many that try to make this transition to film.
Unlike a Sayles movie, you know how 12 Angry Men will end, but there are such polar opposites on the jury that the intrigue is in what could possibly cause one of them to change his vote.
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 12 Angry Men
A 12 man jury is sent to begin deliberations in the first-degree murder trial of an 18-year-old slum kid who is accused of stabbing his father to the death.
It is the full-male, twelve men cast who, with their fleshed out characters, different psychologies and varying ideas, keep the film afloat.
The men's sweat can almost be smelled, their confusion can even be touched; all the situations in the film remain plausible yet ever fascinating, and at the end everything is masterfully tied.
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 Retrospectives: 12 ANGRY MEN
The film's scenario is easily described: Twelve men sit in a New York City jury room, assigned to a case where the death penalty will be mandatory in the event of a conviction.
Sitting in the corner is Juror #12 (Robert Webber), an ad exec, familiar with the conference table set-up, and perhaps confused by the fact that nobody seems wowed by his experience.
"12 Angry Men" was the director's first feature, and yet it continues to stand tall at the top of his filmography.
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 12 ANGRY MEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A jury of 12 men go into deliberations in a murder case involving an 18-year old man. Eleven of the jurors vote the boy guilty, but one man votes not guilty.
Another vote is taken and two more men sway their votes, Juror 1 and Juror 12, both changing due to the evidence changing their minds.
This is a story of 12 men, and the realization of their own belief systems.
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 12 Angry Men (1957)
12 Angry Men (1957) is the gripping, penetrating, and engrossing examination of a diverse group of twelve jurors (all male, mostly middle-aged, white, and generally of middle-class status) who are uncomfortably brought together to deliberate after hearing the 'facts' in a seemingly open-and-shut murder trial case.
The compelling, provocative film examines the twelve men's deep-seated personal prejudices, perceptual biases and weaknesses, indifference, anger, personalities, unreliable judgments, cultural differences, ignorance and fears, that threaten to taint their decision-making abilities, cause them to ignore the real issues in the case, and potentially lead them to a miscarriage of justice.
And it was improper for Juror # 8 to act as a defense attorney - to re-enact the old man's walk to the front door or to investigate on his own by purchasing a similar knife.
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 12 Angry Men review
The brilliance of 12 Angry Men is not in the dissection of the trial and the evidence, but in the portrayal of the twelve jurors.
And therein lies the beauty of 12 Angry Men - one is so consumed by the brilliance of the script and the acting that it doesn't matter what the jurors' names are.
I first saw 12 Angry Men on TV in the 1980s, and though it was on late at night, I was entranced until the very end.
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 Mutant Reviewers from Hell do "12 Angry Men"
12 Angry Men is a 50s adaption of a 50s play.
I can't properly express the feelings 12 Angry Men pulled out of me, but there was a lot of tension, suspense, and wide-eyed fascination as things unravel.
I don't know what kind of mood you need to be in to see 12 Angry Men, but young and old alike should gather at the glowing tube to share in a classic of civilization as we know it (naturally, not that "Atlantian" civilization...
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 12 Angry Men (1957)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Adapted directly from the play, 12 Angry Men retains the skeleton of its origin; a single pressure-cooker room, twelve divisive individuals and a life or death choice.
Allied with economical and piercing dialogue, the outcome is frequently explosive; you cannot fail to be moved by 12 Angry Men.
It doesn't matter though because 12 Angry Men does the one thing that is beyond reproach; it never states the guilt or innocence of the defendant.
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 12 Angry Men   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
For over forty years 12 Angry Men has been parodied on every sitcom imaginable and used as fodder for dramas to the point where the scenario is familiar to anyone who has ever turned on a television set.
12 Angry Men is not only a riveting drama, brilliantly directed and acted, it is a searing indictment of the deficiencies of our judicial system.
The print that MGM has used for this transfer is in excellent condition, with a bare minimum of specks and a couple of scratches, and one barely noticeable blip near the beginning that looked as if the film had received a minor repair.
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 EUFS: 12 Angry Men
All of these men believe themselves to be impartial, yet each has an underlying current which influences their attitudes towards the accused, the witnesses, the justice system.
Never condescending, the superb plotting and razor-sharp script demand intelligence from the viewer as we realise that the final verdict is not as important as what we learn from each of these characters, and about ourselves as a result.
We also get a view of the two sides of the legal system: the institution that would want itself to be objective, and the human element behind it - twelve men, chosen at random to play their part in the implementation of justice.
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Comment: 12 Angry Men is a movie that everyone should see at some point in their lives.
The jury includes men from all walks of life, men of different lifestyles and temperments, irascible men, jovial men, detached men.
Sidney Lumet's courtroom drama, 12 Angry Men, depicts the goings-on in a jury room, where twelve men decide the fate of a young man accused of murdering his father.
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 Barnes & Noble.com - DVD, Movie, Video: 12 Angry Men, Henry Fonda, DVD, Black & White / Wide Screen / Mono
Rose had once served on a New York jury and his "12 Angry Men" is a dramatization of how disturbing an experience he found that to be.
"12 Angry Men" is a fascinating but uncomfortably close examination of the workings of constitutional law and the fact that a person's life can be in the hands of 12 people who are themselves full of faults, failings and doubts.
''12'' is a truly remarkable examination of character, and the lack of it.
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 :: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies :: 12 Angry Men (xhtml)
But "12 Angry Men" never states whether the defendant is innocent or guilty.
In its ingenuity, in the way it balances one piece of evidence against another that seems contradictory, "12 Angry Men" is as meticulous as the summation of an Agatha Christie thriller.
For Sidney Lumet, born in 1924, "12 Angry Men" was the beginning of a film career that has often sought controversial issues.
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 DVD Verdict Review - Twelve Angry Men
12 Angry Men is a flawless, brilliant, intense portrayal of our justice system at work, as relevant and intense today as it was during its 1957 release.
Rather than show you the trial and the posturing of the attorneys, the film takes up just as the jurors are being released into the deliberation room, where the film will remain for almost its entire length.
The jurors are a disparate group of men from differing backgrounds and dispositions, but most have one thing in common.
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 "12 Angry Men [1997]" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
Added into the mix is one ill juror, another man who is anxious to "get this over with" and get to a ball game, and the fact that it is "the hottest day of the year" and the air conditioner in the deliberation room is not working.
This count is to be considered a minimum, since it was often difficult to hear exactly what the men were saying during their heated outbursts (several men were yelling at the same time).
Other areas of concern were: several characters used racial slurs and showed a disrespect for elders, two men are shown urinating in a rest room (seen from the waist up), the murder is often described or reenacted (but not in a graphic way), and one character smokes a cigarette in one scene.
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 "12 Angry Men"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
"12 Angry Men" is a great choice for such a big class -- it has 12 characters, and 3 acts.
Finally, we'll watch the 50's version of "12 Angry Men" with Henry Fonda and Lee J. Cobb and compare their performances with our own.
After having put in time on their own characters, students tend to find a much higher level of respect for screen actors and the work they do to portray their characters efffectively.
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 Amazon.co.uk: 12 Angry Men (1957): Video: Martin Balsam,John Fiedler,Sidney Lumet,Lee J. Cobb,E.G. Marshall,Jack ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
For those of you who watch Judge John Deed, the recent episode of him as the juror is the bbc version of 12 Angry men, just not as good.
Twelve Angry Men is a brilliantly made film with some clever directional touches used to highlight the tension and claustrophobia of the jury room.
Gradually he forces the other men to confront the evidence in front of them and to admit the situation is not as clear cut as it seemed.
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 12 Angry Men   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
There seems to be a lot of anger directed at protestors and the feeling also seems to exist that all individuals who protest are against the folks that have been deployed.
Anyway, some of the things that are being said remind me of the jurors in 12 Angry men.
On either side, there are bound to be those on the radical fringe but in a way I see some of the people asking the question, as did Henry Fonda’s character, and wanting to view the facts.
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 eBay - VHS: 12 Angry Men (UPC: 651021100073)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Recently I was able to watch the original film titled 12 Angry Men that had Henry Fonda starring as Juror number 8, the lone holdout for a 'not guilty' judgement.
Instead of twelve white men, the jury is more racially mixed, but the old demons of hate, boredom, impatience and bigotry still remain.
12 Angry Men made me want to rush out and rent all his other films, because this man was one of the most "human" actors of..
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 12 Angry Men
"12 Angry Men" explores the lives of a dozen American men from very diverse backgrounds as they are forced to decide whether a young man accused of patricide is innocent or guilty.
To the director's and actor's credit, by the time the 12 men reach a verdict we feel that we've gotten to know each of them.
In this production of '12 Angry Men,' the dozen performers interacted with clockwork precision, each subtly trying to top the others in an orgy of melodramatic fun.
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 12 Angry Men
As the film opens, the seemingly open-and-shut trial of a young Puerto Rican accused of murdering his father with a knife has just concluded and the 12-man jury retires to their microscopic, sweltering quarters to decide the verdict.
When the votes are counted, 11 men rule guilty, while one--played by Henry Fonda, again typecast as another liberal, truth-seeking hero--doubts the obvious.
Stressing the idea of "reasonable doubt," Fonda slowly chips away at the jury, who represent a microcosm of white, male society--exposing the prejudices and preconceptions that directly influence the other jurors' snap judgments.
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 Amazon.ca: 12 Angry Men (Widescreen): DVD: Sidney Lumet,Henry Fonda,Lee J. Cobb,Ed Begley,E.G. Marshall,Jack ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Operating within the constraints of a small budget, first-time director Sidney Lumet tightens the noose by accentuating the throbbing pulse of the ceiling fan and slowly narrowing his shots on his characters as the film approaches its climax.
Here are two subtleties in 12 ANGRY MEN which I don't know if anyone else has remarked on.
Politically speaking, 12 Angry Men is a testimony against juries and capital punishment, but that is not the point of the movie.
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 12 Angry Men
12 Angry Men: Juror #8 is the Most Important Juror Juror #8 was the most important juror in the play Twelve Angry Men for a number of reasons.
The first reason is that when all the other jurors voted guilty without even thinking about their decisions, Juror #8 suggested that they talk about it before jumping to conclusions.
For these reasons Juror #8 is the most important juror in the play Twelve Angry Men.
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 12 angry men
In the story 12 Angry Men, readers are introduced to a wide aray of characters; all of which play
Juror 11 is a most unlikely character at the beginning of 12 Angry Men.
The presence of Juror 11 in 12 Angry Men is crucial to the theme of the story.
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 12 Angry men
The play is a single scene that shows the deliberations of a 12 man jury in a murder trial.
At first all but one juror are convinced it's an open and shut case, but as the lone juror explains his doubts more and more of his companions realise the problems with taking evidence and "facts" at face value.
Steve Frost as the angry belligerent juror who's ready to throw the switch on the electric chair himself, David Calvitto as the wisecracking salesman who's shallow attitude to the trial undoes him in the end,
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 12 Angry Men (1957)
Twelve men sitting on a jury deliberate in the capital crime of murder.
The genius here is these twelve actors take this premise and explore the very core of the human experience.
Here in 12 Angry Men the camera and lens work is a textbook case of how a film should be shot.
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 12 Angry Men   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A masterful work of debate and dialogue; of shifting momentum and the ideal of sticking to your scruples in the face of antagonistic groupthink.
12 Angry Men ranks as the tautest courtroom drama you’ll ever see, surpassing Lumet’s very good 1982 drama, The Verdict.
12 Angry Men (1957) is the gripping, penetrating, and engrossing examination of a diverse group of twelve jurors -
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 12 Angry Men
Having this movie, 12 Angry Men, being made in the late 1950’s, women were not allowed to serve as jurors in the courtroom.
With a woman having served as a juror with 11 other men could have definitely changed the outlook on how the deliberation process could have finalized not so much easier, but different.
Most of these men seemed as though if a woman were around, their attitudes could have changed quite a bit.
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 Amazon.com: 12 Angry Men: DVD: Martin Balsam,John Fiedler,Lee J. Cobb,E.G. Marshall,Jack Klugman,Ed Binns,Jack ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Even though none of the jurors are named in the movie (two are in the very last scene, after the case is over) by the time the movie is over, you feel as if you know and understand every one of them.
Because the movie is about 12 men in a jury, who decide if the pleaded is guilty, or not.
An imperfectly conducted trial with a selection of angry and biased jurors working within an imperfect system of law is brought to perfection as the jurors gradually realize that doubt is always possible and so the law itself forbids the death penalty-it merely leaves the decision in the hands of the jurors.
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