12 angry men

Author

Sidney Lumet

Call Number

• BLU-RAY DRAMA (CEN)

Edition

Blu-ray special edition.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

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.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2011]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (96 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 16 cm)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

"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 as riveting as it is spare, this iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose's teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the dissenting member of 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."--Container.

Notes

Originally released as a motion picture in 1957.

Special features: New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack ; Frank Schaffner's 1955 teleplay of 12 angry men, from the series Studio One, with an introduction by Ron Simon, curator at the Paley Center for Media ; production history of 12 angry men, from teleplay to big-screen classic ; archival interviews with director Sidney Lumet ; new interview with screenwriter Walter Bernstein about Lumet ; new interview with Simon about writer Reginald Rose ; Tragedy in a temporary town (1956), a teleplay directed by Lumet and written by Rose ; new interview with cinematographer John Bailey about director of photography Boris Kaufman ; original theatrical trailer.