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Joseph Sweeney Juror 9 as Juror 9. Ed Begley Juror 10 as Juror George Voskovec Juror 11 as Juror Robert Webber Juror 12 as Juror Rudy Bond Judge as Judge uncredited. Tom Gorman Stenographer as Stenographer uncredited. James Kelly Guard as Guard uncredited. Sidney Lumet. Reginald Rose story screenplay.

More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The defense and the prosecution have rested, and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open-and-shut case of murder soon becomes a detective story that presents a succession of clues creating doubt, and a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, AND each other.

Based on the play, all of the action takes place on the stage of the jury room. Did you know Edit. Trivia At the beginning of the film, the cameras are all positioned above eye level and mounted with wide-angle lenses to give the appearance of greater distance between the subjects. As the film progresses the cameras slip down to eye level.

By the end of the film, nearly all of it is shot below eye level, in close-up and with telephoto lenses to increase the encroaching sense of claustrophobia.

Goofs Within the last half hour of the movie, the clock on the wall in the jury room can be seen indicating Several minutes later, E. Marshall states that it is "a quarter after six". Several minutes after that, the wall clock is seen again, but still shows Still later, when Lee J. Cobb leans over the table after he tears up the snapshot from his wallet, his watch can be seen indicating Quotes Juror 8 : Let me ask you this: Do you really think the boy'd shout out a thing like that so the whole neighborhood could hear him?

Crazy credits At the end of the film, the actors are billed in order of their juror numbers; thus Henry Fonda , although the star of the film, appears 8th. User reviews 1. Top review. Dont judge by the age! For a while I was not very receptive to watching films that were too old. I always thought it would be difficult to get involved in the context, I couldn't be more wrong! FAQ 1. Where the movie was shot? Details Edit. Release date April 10, United States.

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