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Twelve Angry Men
Henry Fonda heads a remarkable cast in Lumet’s single-set drama about jurors debating the evidence of a murder trial.
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Director
Sidney Lumet
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With
Henry Fonda, Lee J Cobb, Ed Begley, EG Marshall, Jack Warden
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USA 1957. 96min
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Digital
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Certificate
U
Adapted by Reginald Rose from his own teleplay – in which one man’s doubts about a murder trial overcome his fellow-jurors’ prejudices – Sidney Lumet’s feature debut makes suspenseful use of a single set and claustrophobic close-ups of a superb cast. Truffaut deemed it a screenwriter’s film – ‘what an author!’ – but called Lumet ‘a director of more than ordinary gifts... We must take him seriously.’
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