Good but quite preachy

Rating: 7/10 (8 March 2016)

A man (played by Henry Fonda) on the jury for a murder trial is not content with the verdict his fellow jurors is heading for. He sets out to show to them what actually occurred and why they're wrong.
Good, but not the all-time classic it is made out to be. The plot is not entirely plausible, and dialogue was often quite preachy. So preachy at times I thought the courts could use the movie in their instructional and "inspiration" videos on the jury system!
Good acting, mostly, though some of the actors playing the minor characters irritated me, by soapboxing.
The movie did bring back some memories. I once served on a murder trial jury (one involving a knife, coincidentally), so I found some of the parallels quite intriguing.