i read a story that the director had the room made smaller for every scene and did not tell the actors. he wanted to increase the tension and anxiety in the room. don't know if it's true...

Another classic film that takes place in a court room is "Who has seen the wind". It is worthy of a review

His friend saved him from ending in a barrel under lake mead

The best part about this story is that the boy's guilt or innocence is irrelevant. The story is the 12 jurors, their distinct personalities (and issues), how they interacted with each other and how they came to a consensus. Group-think and peer pressure versus freedom of thought. Prejudice and bias versus objectivity.

"12 Angry Men" is absolutely in the top five of my favorite films of all time. Just a gentle correction to your introduction. The movie was nominated for three Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Writing--Screenplay based on material from another medium). Unfortunately, it did not take home any. I love your knowledge of the actors you mentioned. Many reactors don't recognize any of them. 😊 UPDATE: Hahaha! I guess I should have waited to make my comment until I watched the video all the way to the end. You found out what I said when you were going through the trivia on the film.

It was thought he was guilty but it was never proven

My brother in law was an police internal affairs inspector so I was always excused

He did it and they let him slip through their fingers ! Dont make the same mistake by letting these movies slip through your fingers........ Blue Collar - Richard Pryor The Brave - Johnny Depp Nightcrawler - Jake Gyllenhaal The Game - Michael Douglas American Psycho - Christian Bale Cult classics

Even though it a foundation of our justice system, we know that eyewitness testimony is unreliable.

There's only two characters in the movie I don't respect: the older racist man, and the younger guy that wants to go to ball game. Everyone else is reasonable and willing to concede good points on both sides.

One of the things I love about this film is that there are valid points made on all sides. It isn't all one-sided and it isn't just one big point that changes everyone's mind. Such a well-crafted script, such a fantastic cast of actors, all put in the hands of a superb director. **chefs kiss**

Recommendations for Henry Fonda films (in no particular order) The Ox-Bow Incident My Darling Clementine Fort Apache Young Mr. Lincoln Mister Roberts On Golden Pond The Wrong Man Fail-Safe Once Upon a Time in the West The Lady Eve The Grapes of Wrath

The sets were movable so in some scenes walls were pushed in closer to the cast to intensify the feeling of pressure.😊

The cast spent two weeks before filming in rehearsals - not frequently done today - which allowed them to deeply inhabit their characters.

Boy is guilty, not only did the jury completly ignore the eyewitness testimony, they also ignored the heavy circumstantial evidence. Nobody called the bailiff to get her testimony, to go through the things she saw and then recheck if someone with bad eyes really could see these details and if these details were really there...no? maybe? anyone? I mean at the beginning it was mentioned, that her testimony is very detailed. After the elder juror mentioned the indentations the testimony itself was forgotten! Let's speculate our way through, no rechecks needed, yeah! And then the point that the boy lost his knife only hours before his dad got stabbed by Mysterio, someone who didnt buy a gun, bat or anything else, no allegedly Mysterio bought a knife, a matching one. Juror No8 knew what he was looking, he saw the knife during the trial, but how did Mysterio know??? A one in a million chance like it was mentioned in the movie, someone who picks a perfect match, a knife of course, not a gun or a brick or anything else you can harm people.

Would a juror be allowed to introduce new evidence? The knife.

12:38 possible but is it reasonable ? Anything is possible…you might meet Putin tomorrow….it is possible.

Never was selected for a jury….but it might be a blessing….all but one was settled out of court, one had a jury but I was struck from it near the end.

Great Reaction to this Classic...... I saw this Presented Muliple Times as a play in High School (Early 1980's)....... Shout out to the Legends in this Movie...... Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Klugman, Martin Balsam, E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Ed Begley Director Lumet wrote in an article: "I shot the first third of the movie above eye level, shot the second third at eye level, and the last third from below eye level. In that way, toward the end, the ceiling began to appear. Not only were the walls closing in, the ceiling was as well. The sense of increasing claustrophobia did a lot to raise the tension of the last part of the movie." The kid not remembering the films is a believable statement. Movie houses weren't multi-screen when this movie was made. A cinema showed one or two movies so in the evening you could buy a double feature ticket without ever asking the name of the films. An angry kid wanting to get out of the summer heat buys a double feature ticket and spends the time stewing in anger paying no attention to the films is quite believable. Another Classic Movie that (mostly) takes place in one room, is "Arsenic and Old Lace"(1944), It had a long run on Broadway, and the movie was shot using most of the actors from the Broadway Production.....

Such a well-made movie on every front, including the choice of having a very limited score. IIRC, the only music was at the beginning, end, and when juror 8 (Fonda) brought his proposal to the group.

Building a story & characters thats two of the great things with these Hollywood classic films.... I have another great classic with the same lead actor.... Henry Fonda he plays Tom Jode in..... The Grapes of Wrath (1940) It's an amazing story about Midwest farmers (share croppers) during the dust bowl right after the great depression with 100's of families forced to pick up and go literally overnight and head towards California and hopefully some work. Thank you for the reaction and good luck with the channel 🙂👍

Go in with an open mind. This film had the best stage actors in New York many of whom became Hollywood stars.

Sidney Lumet is one of the great directors of all time, and this is his first movie and also one of his best. Another movie by Lumet that I always recommend is Fail Safe from 1964...it also stars Henry Fonda. Other older movies that I suggest that were not made by Lumet are...To Kill a Mockingbird(1962), Inherit the Wind(1960), and Judgement at Nuremberg(1961)...all three are highly renowned courtroom dramas filmed in black and white.

Hey, Livingston! This was originally a teleplay for a "Playhouse 90"-type show in the '50's which were basically filmed theatrical productions broadcast during the early days of American TV. Before formulaic sitcoms and dramas became TV staples, actual playwrights were tapped to provide original or adapted content of high quality. The story really works as a theatrical piece with 12 players in one setting. A few years later, the great Sidney Lumet (pronounced Loom-ET) directed it for film. Lumet is considered one of the quintessential New York directors like Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee. The film is considered one of the greatest courtroom dramas ever made. It is my 11th favorite film of all time! I like how Fonda's chief antagonists are fire and ice: the bombastic Lee J. Cobb and the coolly logical E.G. Marshall. The cast was stacked with some of the best character actors of the day some of which had amazing careers like Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Jack Warden, Ed Begley and Robert Webber. However, it's live-wire Lee J. Cobb who steals the spotlight with his histrionics and rage! When he has his breakthrough and realizes why he's rushed to judgment, his collapse is shattering and brings me to tears every time. Henry Fonda's magnanimity as he helps him to his feet and gives him his coat is equally moving. Foreigner George Voskovec and the elderly Joseph Sweeney were holdovers from the TV production. A remake was made for cable TV with a black Mykelti Williamson portraying a reverse racist. Jack Lemmon had the Fonda role and George C. Scott had the Cobb role. Courtney B. Vance was the foreman, venerable Ossie Davis was the milquetoast, Armin Mueller-Stahl was the logical stockbroker, Dorian Harewood of "Hill Street Blues" was the slum escapee, James Gandolfini of "The Sopranos" was the blue collar guy, Tony Danza of "Who's the Boss?" was the sports guy, the legendary Hume Cronyn was the elderly gent, Edward James Olmos of "Battlestar Galactica" played the foreigner and William Petersen of "CSI" played the ad exec. Despite the heavy-hitters in the cast, it doesn't have the same power as the original. I feel some of the players would have been better served by being assigned different parts. The reverse racist angle was a clever one, though. Another remake was considered by adding women to the mix. The project was abandoned because the inclusion of female energy would change the dynamic of the story and the energy of the room.

My favorite Henry Fonda movie is the often overlooked Sergio Leone western/comedy from 1973 My Name Is Nobody Original title: Il mio nome è Nessuno with Fonda and Terence Hill… Hilarious

I think Worden changed his mind after all the discussion because he was really persuaded that the arguments against a guilty verdict were solid. The problem for him was to make an elegant U-turn after all that let-me-go-to-the-ball-game attitude. It was hard for him to have to admit, first of all to himself, that to have played with a man's life like he did for a futile reason (not to miss a baseball match) was shameful. So he came up with the "oh, I'm tired of this discussion, I change my vote" not to lose face.

I was called for jury duty three times in four years. I was in a Chicago suburb at the time. The first time was at the courthouse downtown Chicago at the Daley Center (where the Picasso is). My panel was in the courtroom by 10, but they seated a full jury before getting to me. They finished jury selection right before lunch and gave those of us not impaneled the option of either going back to the waiting room to maybe be put on another panel that afternoon, or take a lunch break and return to the courtroom before being released for the day. We took the latter option. The second was in the small suburban courthouse five minutes from my apartment. At 9 am, they told us that three of the four cases had chosen judge hearing and didn’t need a jury. Fifteen minutes later, the fourth and last case was settled, so they sent us all home. The third time would have been at the big criminal courthouse at 26th and California. Luckily for me, when I called in the day before , they told me they didn’t need me. It would have been a major pain to get to that address, so I was relieved!

This film is pretty much perfect. Every shot has relevance and in a way it really has a fly on the wall quality although the fly is not just on the wall; it's flying around the room, it's on the table, it's by a window and occasionally flies up to the ceiling in a way that is not judgemental of each character, but very observing. Also I love how the story written by Reginald Rose, how wonderful are underlying details that give each character real individuality that gives their POVs such detail, like Henry Fonda's character is an architect so he's interested in the building blocks of the case or how Jack Warden's character is constantly looking at his watch who gets into an argument with a watchmaker who is concerned about the timing of the accused going back to his and his father's apartment and what was really going on within that time. It's just brilliant. And of course alk the actors were absolutely top-notch.

Watching other people watching movies is a thing now, eh?

The episode was made just 1 year after the movie THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE was relased, a movie with similiar theme of a communist agent inserted into the US with the intention of assisination.

10:15: "The music's pretty interesting, too". I was just thinking, before you said that, that the music sounds like it could fit in with the movie Conan the Barbarian!

Also, I really enjoyed the music for this episode, and wished it’d been used more often.

This is something to see here, and to see how things stay the same at times, and are different too.

That is film not videotape.

I'm glad that Franklin's slot machine didn't jinx those two dudes, lol. Great episode!

and of course Peter Weller who played Buckaroo Banzai was in Star Trek: Into Darkness.

I think Rod had a few gambling demons he needed to talk about 😂

Why you mocking this sad fool ?

TALK TALK TALK !!!!!!!! Bye. You are not the person to post reactions. YOU CANNOT STFU !!!!!!!

buddy ebsen,was the sidekick,in the disney movies davey crocket

Check out The Arrival.

Probably my favorite episode is coming up soon called Shadow Play. Looking forward to your watching it.

It took months with a trainer, but eventually, that laser was trained to eat cornbread.

No, I didn't know. And I don't care.

yeah, we know. we saw the movie, genius

One of the main and many differences between Western Animation and Eastern Anime is the fact that Western Animation is for babies and kids, and Eastern Anime is for Adults. One more thing, you should check out Appleseed and Ghost in the Shell.

the chics from BnD,,,,🥰

One of my Favorite series EVER!!!!! Hope it inspires teases shocks motivates and Entertains!!! Enjoy the Ride Brother itz'a GoodOne!!!🌎📽️🎶🎶🎶

Wait how would Marsha have a mother, if she was a mannequin?

Crikey the last time i saw this when it came out. you can't beat the Original. lovely Jubbly😀