12 angry men / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Orion/Nova productions ; a United Artists presentation ; story and screenplay by Reginald Rose ; produced by Henry Fonda and Reginald Rose ; directed by Sidney Lumet.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: CC2092D | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 591.Publisher: [New York, New York] : Criterion Collection, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Edition: Two-DVD special edDescription: 2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9781604655094
- 1604655097
- Twelve angry men
- 12 angry men (Motion picture)
- Director of photography, Boris Kaufman ; film editor, Carl Lerner ; music composed and conducted by Kenyon Hopkins ; art director, Robert Markel ; associate producer, George Justin.
- National Film Registry selection, 2007.
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | DRAMA 12 ANGRY | Available | 33111010004261 | |||||
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Main Library | DVD | New | DRAMA 12 ANGRY | Available | 33111010005136 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A Puerto Rican youth is on trial for murder, accused of knifing his father to death. The twelve jurors retire to the jury room, having been admonished that the defendant is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Eleven of the jurors vote for conviction, each for reasons of his own. The sole holdout is Juror #8, played by Henry Fonda. As Fonda persuades the weary jurors to re-examine the evidence, we learn the backstory of each man. Juror #3 (Lee J. Cobb), a bullying self-made man, has estranged himself from his own son. Juror #7 (Jack Warden) has an ingrained mistrust of foreigners; so, to a lesser extent, does Juror #6 (Edward Binns). Jurors #10 (Ed Begley) and #11 (George Voskovec), so certain of the infallibility of the Law, assume that if the boy was arrested, he must be guilty. Juror #4 (E.G. Marshall) is an advocate of dispassionate deductive reasoning. Juror #5 (Jack Klugman), like the defendant a product of "the streets," hopes that his guilty vote will distance himself from his past. Juror #12 (Robert Webber), an advertising man, doesn't understand anything that he can't package and market. And Jurors #1 (Martin Balsam), #2 (John Fiedler) and #9 (Joseph Sweeney), anxious not to make waves, "go with the flow." The excruciatingly hot day drags into an even hotter night; still, Fonda chips away at the guilty verdict, insisting that his fellow jurors bear in mind those words "reasonable doubt." A pet project of Henry Fonda's, Twelve Angry Men was his only foray into film production; the actor's partner in this venture was Reginald Rose, who wrote the 1954 television play on which the film was based. Carried over from the TV version was director Sidney Lumet, here making his feature-film debut. A flop when it first came out (surprisingly, since it cost almost nothing to make), Twelve Angry Men holds up beautifully when seen today. It was remade for television in 1997 by director William Friedkin with Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
DVD; region 1; NTSC; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
Wide screen (1.66:1).
English dialogue with optional English captions.
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.
Director of photography, Boris Kaufman ; film editor, Carl Lerner ; music composed and conducted by Kenyon Hopkins ; art director, Robert Markel ; associate producer, George Justin.
Based on the television drama of the same title by Reginald Rose.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957.
A jury of white men is ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. However, one juror forces the others to consider whether the evidence--or the jurors' own prejudices--influences their deliberations. The story plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room.
Special features: Disc 2. "The television version" directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, introduction by Ron Simon (Sept. 26, 1954); "12 angry men: from television to the big screen" interview with film scholar Vance Kepley. Theatrical trailer. Disc 2. 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; "Tragedy in a small town" a 1956 teleplay directed by Lumet and written by Rose. Booklet: "Lumet's faces" essay by Thane Rosenbaum.
National Film Registry selection, 2007.
Special features: Television version, for Studio one (1954 ; 51 min.) directed by Franklin Schaffner and starring Robert Cummings and Franchot Tone with an introduction by Ron Simon ; production history, from teleplay to film ; archival interviews with Lumet ; new interview about the director with writer Walter Bernstein ; new interview with Simon about television writer Reginald Rose ; Tragedy in a temporary town (1956 ; 55 min.) teleplay by Rose directed by Lumet, starring Lloyd Bridges and Jack Warden ; new interview with cinematographer John Bailey about Boris Kaufman ; original theatrical trailer ; booklet with essay by law professor Thane Rosenbaum.
Disc 1. Film and television versions -- Disc 2. Special features.