{"id":38316,"date":"2025-02-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38316"},"modified":"2025-02-09T18:29:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T23:29:25","slug":"12-angry-men-1957-written-by-reginald-rose-directed-by-sidney-lumet-starring-henry-fonda-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38316","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;12 Angry Men&#8221; (1957) written by Reginald Rose; directed by Sidney Lumet; starring Henry Fonda \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z021325zview_12angrymen.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"764\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>12 Angry Men <\/i>(1957)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Sidney Lumet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Reginald Rose <\/strong>based on his 1954 teleplay for Studio One<strong>.<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Edward Binns, Jack Warden, Joseph Sweeney, Ed Begley, George Voskovec, Robert Webber <\/strong>and <strong>Rudy Bond<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>Life Is In Their Hands &#8212; Death Is On Their Minds!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the hottest day of the year, twelve jurors enter the jury room to determine the verdict in a capital murder case.\u00a0 A teenage boy is accused of stabbing his father to death.\u00a0 A guilty verdict results in a mandatory death penalty.\u00a0 Eleven jurors see the accused as guilty.\u00a0 One isn&#8217;t sure.<\/p>\n<p>Tempers will flare and motivations bared as deliberations proceed.\u00a0 A young man&#8217;s life hangs in the balance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>12 Angry Men <\/i>was nominated for three 1958<i> Academy Awards&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nominee for <em>Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium<\/em> &#8211;<strong> Reginald Rose<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Nominee for <em>Best Director<\/em> &#8211;<strong> Sidney Lumet<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Nominee for <em>Best Picture<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Henry Fonda, Reginald Rose<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>12 Angry Men<\/em> is considered a classic.\u00a0 It currently has a 9 out of 10 rating on IMDb.\u00a0 It has an 100% reviewers rating and 97% user rating at Rotten Tomatoes.\u00a0 Surprisingly,<em> 12 Angry Men<\/em> was a box office disappointment.\u00a0 Henry Fonda had deferred part of his salary and the film didn&#8217;t earn enough to pay off.\u00a0 Still, Fonda considered <em>12 Angry Men<\/em> one of his best films.<\/p>\n<p><em>12 Angry Men<\/em> was Sidney Lumet&#8217;s feature film directing debut.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An all star cast (although not all were stars at the time), an exceptional screenplay and a director who knew how to film in tight quarters and get the tension on screen from men talking make for a film classic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>12 Angry Men <\/i>(1957) <\/em><\/strong>rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z021325zview_12angrymen2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 Angry Men (1957) Director:\u00a0 Sidney Lumet Screenplay:\u00a0 Reginald Rose based on his 1954 teleplay for Studio One. 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