12 Angry Men - The Criterion Collection

12 Angry Men, directed by Sidney Lumet, may be the most radical courtroom drama in cinema history. A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system that is as riveting as it is spare, this iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose's teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the dissenting member on a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. The result is a saga of epic proportions that plays out over a tense afternoon in one sweltering room. Lumet's electrifying snapshot of 1950s America on the verge of change is one of the great feature-film debuts.

Special Features

Interviews: Sidney Lumet (director); Walter Bernstein (screenwriter); Ron Simon (curator at the Paley Center for Media); John Bailey (cinematographer), Television version from 1954 of '12 Angry Men', directed by Franklin J. Schaffner for the series 'Studio One', with an introduction by Ron Simon; Production history of '12 Angry Men', from teleplay to big-screen classic; 'Tragedy in a Temporary Town' (1956): Teleplay directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Reginald Rose; Essay by Thane Rosenbaum (writer/law professor); Cover by Sean Phillips, Trailers

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

Audio Languages: English

Duration: 96 minutes

Number of Discs: 2

Subtitle Languages: English

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