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    12 Angry Men

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    Superb courthouse drama, focusing on a man of justice who won't be forced to a decision by the other eleven jurists to condemn a youth on trial for murder. It's summer, the court house has no air-conditioning and tempers run high as jurists shift from one position to another, a gamut of emotions as volatile as a bomb about to explode. The anger of one jurist (Lee J. Cobb) to get the trial over and done with has a deeper side than just wanting to reach a verdict. He is in torment from a personal family crisis with his son that has proven to be a 'rotter' in the face of his father (Cobb) Other characters show a variety of human frailties of a most severe severe nature while jurists seem to embody 'everyman' who go with the flow, but are open to seeing the light in this horrendous murder trial. It was the great Sydney lumet's first theatrical film and it is a dandy. Headed by Henry Fonda with an absolute STELLAR cast of great actors of the 1950's period, their careers ranging from as far back as 1939 this is a film of great skill. The clausterphobic atmosphere of the jury's room, where most of the action takes place, raises the level of anxiety, temper and anger to a fever pitch, at times to the point of out and out verbal and even physical violence so high do the emotions run. This was a labour of love for Henry Fonda who wanted to make a perfect theatrical movie of the tremendous Broadway hit which has just been revived on Broadway to great aclaim. The movie is a winner on every level: the cast, Lumet's strong direction, the movie's set decoration making the situation seem all the more desperate and volatile in the stifling heet. There are no histrionics in this film. It is simply a fabulously written movie that places the viewer in ONE solitary room for the majority of the film, yet there is not ONE DULL MOMENT. It's is a masterpiece of a movie, of restraint and demonstrates how a single man with a nagging hunch that justice, on the verge of being sabotaged, can eventually come to a truth when all seems lost. Not to be missed.

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    pietroantoni@  17.6.2011 age: 36-49 14,540 reviews

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