12 ANGRY MEN, by Sidney Lumet, may be the most radical big-screen courtroom drama in cinema history. A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system as riveting as it is spare, the iconic adaptation of Reginald Roses 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. Lumets electrifying snapshot of 1950s America on the verge of change is one of the great feature-film debuts.
Director: Sidney Lumet
Producer: Henry Fonda
Producer: Reginald Rose
Actor: E.G. Marshall
Actor: Ed Begley Sr.
Actor: Ed Begley
Actor: Sr.
Actor: Henry Fonda
Actor: Lee J. Cobb
Actor: Ed Begley
Actor: E. G. Marshall
Actor: Jack Warden
Actor: Martin Balsam
Actor: John Fiedler
Actor: Jack Klugman
Actor: Edward Binns
Actor: Joseph Sweeney
Actor: George Voskovec
Actor: Robert Webber
Actor: James A. Kelly
Actor: John Savoca
Actor: Rudy Bond
Actor: Bill Nelson