12 angry men [videorecording] / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; story and screenplay by Reginald Rose ; produced by Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose ; directed by Sidney Lumet ; Orion-Nova ; a United Artists presentation.

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Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: CC2092DVD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 591.Publication details: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2011.Description: 2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN:

9781604655094
1604655097

Uniform titles:

12 angry men (Motion picture)
Studio One (Television program). Twelve angry men.

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DDC classification:

791.43/72 23

Partial contents:

Special features: Schaffner's 1955 television version, with an introduction by Ron Simon, director of the Paley Center for Media Studie; "12 angry men": from televion to the big screen, a video essay by film scholar Vance Kapley; archival interviews with Lumet; new interview about the director with writer Walter Bernstein; new interview with Simon about television writer Reginald Rose; new interview with cinematographer John Bailey.

Production credits:

Director of photography, Boris Kaufman ; film editor, Carl Lerner ; music, Kenyon Hopkins.

Awards:

National Film Registry selection, 2007.

Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Jack Klugman, Edward Binns, Joseph Sweeney, George Voskovec, Robert Webber.Summary: A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system as riveting as it is spare, the iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose's teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the initially dissenting member of a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. What results is a saga of epic proportions that plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room. One of the most radical big-screen courtroom dramas in cinema history.

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Based on the television drama of the same title by Reginald Rose

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957.

Director of photography, Boris Kaufman ; film editor, Carl Lerner ; music, Kenyon Hopkins.

Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Jack Klugman, Edward Binns, Joseph Sweeney, George Voskovec, Robert Webber.

A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system as riveting as it is spare, the iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose's teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the initially dissenting member of a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. What results is a saga of epic proportions that plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room. One of the most radical big-screen courtroom dramas in cinema history.