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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([20] pages : illustrations ; 16 cm)
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957
Special features: Schaffner's 1955 television version, with an introduction by Ron Simon, director of the Paley Center for Media Studies; "12 angry men": from television 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; teleplay Tragedy in a Temporary town; original theatrical trailer
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
Based on the television drama of the same title by Reginald Rose
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
Blu-ray, region A; widescreen (1.66:1) aspect ratio; mono.; requires Blu-ray player
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
National Film Registry selection, 2007