"Twelve Angry Men" Excellent movie and pretty relevant right now.

[Honeycombe8]

[JackN415]

1. All white male jury - the way it used to be :))

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Very good movie

And when I finally did watch it a couple years ago, I was surprised at how many character actors I recognized who had later appeared in various television shows....

[Honeycombe8]

6. Recognize Crazy Like A Fox actor? Remember that tv show? He was also in...

Sandra Bullock movie While You Were Sleeping. Also a good movie.

All these actors are excellent and among the best character actors.

[grok]

3. Would like to believe I'd emulate the Henry Fonda

role if called for jury duty.

I can tell some of you are more like the Ed Begley and Lee J Cobb roles.

[Jenoch]

4. Last December,

Jack Klugman was the last of the 12 Angry Men to die. He was 90.

[Honeycombe8]

5. Amazing, since he had gotten cancer many years before. Still, he lived on for years. nt

[Jenoch]

7. I watched this movie

in its entirety only last spring. I thought it was well done. I don't know if any producer would have the guts to make a feature film today with the entire thing set in a single room.

[Honeycombe8]

8. First they'd have to find a Henry Fonda. But Glengarry Glen Ross and Death of A Salesman

were made into movies that did pretty well, I think.

[Jenoch]

10. Tom Hanks could do the Fonda role.

I wasn't thinking of a remake, I was thinking of the pressure it is these days so that a producer would not take the risk. It's hard to believe, but Glengarry Glen Ross was over 20 years ago and Death of a Salesman (the film) came out 28 years ago.

[Honeycombe8]

13. Whoa. Was it that long ago? Geez, I'm getting old! Alec Baldwin was pretty young in

Glengarry, now that I think of it.

[Jenoch]

17. Scary isn't it?

I made the mistake of telling my kids I bought a typewriter when I got to college (mid 80s). They think I'm a dinosaur. Of course I had already told them we only had one TV that only got 3 channels and we had to get up and change the channel by turning a knob on the TV. i think one of them asked what a knob was and why was there one on the TV. (Duh, to change the channel.)

[Honeycombe8]

18. LOL. nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. The Russians made a very good version of it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488478/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_2

[Voice for Peace]

11. indeed!! I saw that film, but not the original. I've been trying to remember

where and when and how I saw it and what it was called.

Thanks!! It's been on my mind with the Zimmerman trial.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. It's hard to say which is the better film. But, do watch the original. Both are great.

[Honeycombe8]

14. I'd like to see that. But how would it work, since Russia doesn't have...

the same kind of trial system. Does it?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

16. I don't know about the justice system, but in the film, it was portrayed like ours.

As I recall, it took place in a gym rather than what we would call a jury room.

[hrmjustin]

15. A great movie!