12 Angry Men

Other theatrical adaptations in which female actors are cast as jurors are called 12 Angry Jurors or 12 Angry Women. The title comes from a line in the poem Ode on Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth:. In 1964 Leo Genn appeared in it on the London stage. It won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen, and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Natalie Wood). Some of the screenplays have been published and Rose wrote several stage adaptations of the story. The movie was written by William Inge and directed by Elia Kazan. 12 Angry Men is sometimes studied as literature. It stars Natalie Wood, Pat Hingle and Warren Beatty.

In this remake, the judge is female, and three of the jurors are African-American; the action and dialogue of the film are otherwise virtually identical to the original. He selfishly turns to another for gratification and she is driven to despair. Scott, James Gandolfini, Tony Danza, and Jack Lemmon. Splendor in the Grass is a 1961 film which tells the story of a girl in a small town in Kansas in 1928 who expresses her moral principles by refusing to give in to her boyfriend's demands for sex. 12 Angry Men was remade for television in 1997, starring George C. A complete kinescope of that performance was discovered, after previously being thought lost, in 2003.

The screenplay had first been produced on television, on the program Studio One, in 1954. The film was parodied on BBC television in an episode of Hancock's Half Hour, starring Tony Hancock and Sid James. (Wider lenses give the appearance of greater distance between objects; longer lenses give the appearance of "shortening" distance, while at the same time decreasing depth of field.) Lumet states that his intention was to cause a nearly palpable claustrophobia; and by most accounts he succeeded. It starts with wider lenses above eye level; by the end of the film nearly everyone is shown in closeup using a long lens from a low angle.

The film was shot in 19 days on a budget of $349,000. Fonda's character's name is Davis, Sweeney's is McCardle. None of the characters in the film are given a name; they are all identified by juror numbers, until the very end when Fonda meets up with Joseph Sweeney's character. The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

Boris Kaufman was the cinematographer. The movie was directed by Sidney Lumet and adapted by Reginald Rose from his 1954 teleplay originally broadcast on CBS. Gradually, Fonda convinces every man on the jury that the defendant's guilt was not conclusively proved to convict him. He says that it is morally wrong (and illegal) to condemn a man to death while even one juror has a reasonable doubt.

The first vote is 11-1 and the 11 jurors are angry at Henry Fonda's character for being the lone holdout. The jury then moves to the jury room, where they take a preliminary vote. The judge tells the twelve men to determine whether the accused boy is guilty of murder. The movie begins with a judge addressing the jury at the conclusion of the prosecution and defense arguments.

It is highly regarded from both a critical and popular standpoint; Roger Ebert lists it as one of his "Great Movies", and it has consistenly ranked in the top 30 on the IMDB Top 250 List. Marshall. Cobb, Ed Begley and E.G. It stars Henry Fonda, Lee J.

12 Angry Men is a 1957 film which tells the story of one lone juror who holds out against the other eleven members of the jury; he is not convinced that the defendant, a young Hispanic man, is guilty of murder. (c) 1995, ISBN 0-679-75660-4. Making Movies, by Sidney Lumet.