12 angry men
Blu-ray - 2011
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.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Legal films
Film adaptations
Film remakes
Feature films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, NY] :
Criterion Collection
[2011]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Blu-ray special edition; Blu-ray edition
- Item Description
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957.
Based on the television drama of the same title by Reginald Rose. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- Blu-ray, region A; widescreen (1.66:1) aspect ratio; mono.; requires Blu-ray player.
- Awards
- National Film Registry selection, 2007.
- Production Credits
- Director of photography, Boris Kaufman ; film editor, Carl Lerner ; music, Kenyon Hopkins.
- ISBN
- 9781604655087
- 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.
