Some observations about 1957’s 12 ANGRY MEN, one of the most powerful films in, um, well, in history, actually. If you haven’t seen it, get to any one of a zillion sites and make the time to do it. And then, read on:
by Jerry Peterson
I watched the 1957 film 12 Angry Men on Turner Classic Movies the other night. It was dynamite . . . or as a line on one of the movie posters of the time proclaimed, the film “explodes like 12 sticks of dynamite!”
It is one powerful courtroom drama, except 93 of the 96 minutes takes place, not in a courtroom, but in a jury room.
Now you know who the 12 angry men are, the jurors who must decide the outcome of a murder case.