12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men is an American drama movie directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Reginald Rose. It is set in New York City and stars Henry Fonda. It was produced in 1957, and is based on a play by the same name also written by Reginald Rose. It's about 12 jurors having to decide whether a defendant is guilty or not, with only one person saying not guilty in the beginning and trying to convince everyone to vote the same.

 Plot 
The story is about 12 jurors having to vote on whether the defendant being tried for the murder of his father. The crime carries the death penalty, so they are deciding whether he lives or dies. At the beginning, only Juror #8 votes not guilty, and he tries to get everyone else to do the same. After a while, Juror #8 agrees to vote guilty if everyone votes guilty again, but Juror #9 votes not guilty, and they keep talking. Slowly, Juror #8 convinces more and more people to vote not guilty, with a few people fighting him strongly. In the end Juror #3 cracks under the pressure of the other jurors and they all end up voting not guilty.

 Cast 

 Juror #  Character  1954 actor  1957 actor  1997 actor  2004-2005 Actor  2006-2007 Actor Order that juror votes 'not guilty' 1  The jury foreman  Norman Fell      Martin Balsam    Courtney B. Vance    Mark Blum  George Wendt                9 2  Bank clerk  John Beal        John Fiedler     Ossie Davis    Kevin Greer        Todd Cerveris               5 3  Business man  Franchot Tone    Lee J. Cobb      George C. Scott     Philip Bosco (Replaced by Robert Foxworth)  Randle Mell                12 4  A stockbroker  Walter Abel      E. G. Marshall    Armin Mueller-Stahl  James Rebhorn   Jeffrey Hayenga       10 (tie) 5  A man from a violent slum  Lee Phillips         Jack Klugman     Dorian Harewood    Michael Mastro    Jim Saltouros               3 6  A house painter  Bart Burns       Ed Binns         James Gandolfini    Robert Clohessy   Charles Borland             6 7  A salesman  Paul Hartman     Jack Warden      Tony Danza         John Pankow    Mark Morettini              7 8  An architect called Davis   Robert Cummings  Henry Fonda      Jack Lemmon     Boyd Gaines       Richard Thomas              1 9  An old man called McArdle  Joseph Sweeney   Joseph Sweeney   Hume Cronyn      Tom Aldredge      Alan Mandell                2 10  A garage owner  Edward Arnold    Ed Begley        Mykelti Williamson   Peter Friedman  Julian Gamble        10 (tie) 11  An immigrant watchmaker  George Voskovec  George Voskovec  Edward James Olmos   Larry Bryggman  David Lively                4 12  An advertising executive  William West         Robert Webber    William L. Petersen  Adam Trese (Replaced by Byron Jennings)  Craig Wroe        8

Category:1957 drama movies
Category:1950s American drama movies
Category:1950s English-language movies
Category:Legal movies
Category:Movies set in New York City
Category:United States National Film Registry movies
Category:Movies directed by Sidney Lumet