12 Angry Men (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

12 Indignant Men, by Sidney Lumet, could also be the most radical big-screen courtroom drama in cinema history. A in the back of-closed-doors take a look at the American legal system as riveting as it’s spare, the iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose’s teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the first of all dissenting member of a jury of white men able to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. What results is a saga of epic proportions that plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room. Lumet’s electrifying snapshot of 1950s The us at the verge of change is without doubt one of the great feature-film debuts.