Twelve Angry Men is an American courtroom drama written by Reginald Rose about the deliberations of a jury at a homicide trial. It was broadcast initially as a television play in 1954. Dramatic Publishing created a stage version of the teleplay in 1955. It was adapted for the screen in 1957, and Rose later adapted it to the stage himself. It has been the subject of numerous remakes, adaptations, and tributes in many languages.
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Twelve Angry Men was adapted into a 1957 film.
12 Angry Men1957 · film · 96 min · dir. Sidney Lumet · IMDb ↗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.
