The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.


Film programs

Das neue Filmprogramm
Illustrierte Film Bühne nr. 3852

Books with substantial mentioning of 12 Angry Men

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Jürgen Müller (ed.)
Movies of the 50s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Douglas Brode
Lost Films of the Fifties
Secaucus, New Jersey, 1988

Tony Thomas
The Complete Films of Henry Fonda
Secaucus, NJ, 1983

Peter Biskind
Seeing Is Believing, How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties
New York, 1983

Articles on 12 Angry Men

Carsten Tritt, Einen auf die Zwölf, in: Schnitt, nr. 57, 2010 pp. 68-69



Year: 1957
Country: United States
Language: English
 
IMDb: 0050083