1957 · Drama

12 Angry Men

It explodes like 12 sticks of dynamite!

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Released
10 Apr 1957
Runtime
97 min
Rating
NR
Director
Sidney Lumet
Language
EN
Country
United States of America
Budget
$397,751
Box office
$4,360,000
IMDb
tt0050083
Drama
Synopsis

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.

Cast
Martin Balsam John Fiedler Lee J. Cobb E.G. Marshall Jack Klugman Edward Binns Jack Warden Henry Fonda Joseph Sweeney Ed Begley George Voskovec Robert Webber Rudy Bond Tom Gorman James Kelly
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Physics fail by waltermoyer · 30 Apr 2024
During the scene where Henry Fonda recreates the testimony of the old man getting out of bed and walking down the hall, the shadow of the camera is visible on the floor.
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Factual error by johnwolfe433 · 23 Dec 2015
in real courts, jurors are generally not supposed to conduct independent experiments, even inside the jury room
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Continuity by leolawson · 10 Oct 2020
When juror #12 sits on the back of his chair smoking a cigarette, his shirt cuffs are rolled back in the long shots, but they appear fastened with cufflinks in the close-up before switching back to being rolled again in the next long shot.
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Physics fail by tinaswift85 · 09 Aug 2011
When Juror #4 stabs the knife into the table for the first time, you can see about a dozen jab marks already in the wood from previous takes.
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Factual error by markforrest81 · 31 Jul 2000
Although the closed captions indicate that Juror 7 tells Juror 6 he has tickets to see the Twins play the Yankees, he actually says "Cleveland." The Minnesota Twins did not exist in 1956, as they did not join the American League until 1961.
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Factual error by valerie32 · 02 Mar 2001
Juror 4 is seen with a newspaper early in the film, despite the instruction in real-life jury duty for jurors not to bring them in to avoid potential bias from case-related articles.
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Continuity by heatherhuber04 · 03 Mar 2009
Although many of the characters, including Juror 7, take off their coats early in the film, Juror 7 is seen wearing his coat again in the shot following Juror 4 flicking the knife open, while the camera focuses on Juror 8's reaction.
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Continuity by arieljulian60 · 02 Nov 2011
During the washroom break, Juror #6 fiddles with the fan's cord and leaves it dangling a couple of feet from the unit. When Juror #8 exits the washroom, the cord is no longer visible. Later, when Juror #7 plugs the fan in after the light switch is turned on, the extra length of the cord is gone.
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Time jump by condor07 · 10 Sep 2019
During the reenactment of the walk down the hall, Juror #2 times the duration and announces 41 seconds, even though the uninterrupted scene actually lasts 30 seconds.
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Continuity by debrawillis · 15 Jun 2016
Within the final 30 minutes of the movie, the wall clock in the jury room indicates 6:15, and it remains at that time even after E.G. Marshall confirms it is "a quarter after six." Later, when Lee J. Cobb leans over the table after tearing up a snapshot from his wallet, his watch displays 5:10.
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