12 Angry Men

On the data. One film, ninety-six minutes, almost entirely in a single room. It was Sidney Lumet's first feature. It was shot in about seventeen days, cost well under a million dollars, and failed commercially in 1957 before becoming one of the most watched films in schools and law faculties anywhere. The film is the second version of the story, not the first. Reginald Rose wrote it as a live television play broadcast in 1954, and adapted his own script for the film. The technique everybody eventually notices is the lenses. Lumet shot the early scenes from above with wide lenses and moved progressively lower and longer as the film goes on, so the walls appear to close in without the room ever changing. He described this openly afterwards. Only one juror is given a name, and it is in the last minute of the film.

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