Contributor
Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011.
Imprint:[United States] : The Criterion Collection, c2011.
Description2 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Note:Release date of DVD: Nov.22, 2011
Note:Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957.
Note:Special features: Schaffner's 1955 television version, with an introduction by Ron Simon, director of the Paley Center for Media Studie; "12 angry men"; from television to the big screen, a video essay by film scholar Vance Kapley; archival interviews with Lumet; new interview about the director with writer Walter Bernstein; new interview with Simon about television writer Reginald Rose; new interview with cinematographer John Bailey.
Note:A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system as riveting as it is spare, the iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose's teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the initially dissenting member of the jury of white men ready to pass judgement 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. One of the most radical big-screen courtroom dramas in cinema history.
Note : PerformerE. G. Marshall , Ed Begley, Henry Fonda, Jack Warden. Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, Jack Klugman.
System Details NotesDigital video disc ; widescreen.
Location Note : REQUEST AT THE CHECK-OUT DESK.
