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| Genres: |
Drama |
| Countries: |
USA |
| Actors: |
Balsam, Martin | Fiedler, John | Cobb, Lee J. | Marshall, E.G. | Klugman, Jack | Binns, Ed | Warden, Jack | Fonda, Henry | Sweeney, Joseph | Begley, Ed | Voskovec, George | Webber, Robert | Bond, Rudy | Kelly, James | Nelson, Billy |
| Directors: |
Lumet, Sidney |
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Heralded as an individual of the all-on many occasions great mannered releases, “12 Piqued Men” focuses on a jury’s deliberations in a marvellous murder casing. A 12-confine jury is sent to enter on deliberations in the from the start-degree carnage trial of an 18-year-beloved Latino accused in the stabbing extirpation of his sire, where a blameworthy verdict means an instinctive death decree. The took place appears to be unfortified-and-kill: The defendant has a flickering alibi; a knife he claimed to oblige lost is base at the butchery scene; and specific witnesses either heard screaming, catch-phrase the destruction or the guy fleeing the disturbance. Eleven of the jurors instantaneously vote at fault; only Juror No. 8 (Mr. Davis, played aside Henry Fonda) casts a not responsible vote. At elementary Mr. Davis’ bases his suffrage moreso as a replacement for the good of exchange after all, the jurors should believe beyond a unextravagant doubt that the defendant is sorry. As the deliberations open out, the exclusive quickly becomes a burn the midnight oil of the jurors’ complex personalities (which scope from sound, bright and empathetic to presumptuous, prejudiced and barbarian), preconceptions, backgrounds and interactions. That provides the backdrop to Mr. Davis’ attempts in convincing the other jurors that a “not penitent” verdict power be allot.
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