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12 Angry
Men (1957)
In director Sidney Lumet's excellent courtroom drama:
- the dramatic debate scenes within a swelteringly-hot
New York City jury room among twelve jurors
- the sequence of their preliminary vote on the fate
of a Puerto Rican boy charged with first degree murder - when rational
Juror # 8 (Henry Fonda) was the only one to vote not guilty and Juror
# 10 (Ed Begley) muttered: "Boy oh boy, there's always one"
- the discussion about the switchblades when Juror
# 8 plunged a switchblade knife (identical to the murder weapon)
into the juror's long table to destroy the basis of the prosecution's
case and cast doubt in the jurors' minds
- the angry outbursts toward the film's end by Juror
# 3 (Lee J. Cobb) and Juror # 8's questioning of his personal attitudes:
"Are you his executioner?"
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