12 Angry Men News

Theatergoers attending the Lampeter-Strasburg School District's play "12 Angry Men" - which is being staged Wednesday through Saturday at 7 each night - should not come expecting the classic film starring Henry Fonda.

Disher, standing, top photo, puts the men through their paces. Below, the hopefuls await their shot.

Tension builds in the jury room, especially between Juror No. 8 and Juror No. 3 . The two are held back by Juror No.

What places a 52-year-old black-and-white film, set virtually in a single room and played out in real time into the rarefied zone of the top 10 highest rated films on the internet's most visited cinephile website? There are no special effects.

'Prejudice always obscures the truth. I don't really know what the truth is. I don't suppose anybody will ever really know.' So speaks Henry Fonda's unnamed Juror No.

4, 2009----Edward James Olmos, a noted actor, artist and lecturer, will speak Thursday, Sept.

The Tolerance Education Center will hold two free showings of "12 Angry Men" Aug.

Rose's original is the pressure cooker tale, told mostly in "real time," of 11 jurors who are gradually swung around, one by one, during arguments, by Juror No.

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The movie "12" is the dynamic Russian version of the 50-year-old American classic "12 Angry Men." The black-and-white original was the first theatrical feature directed by the great Sidney Lumet, and it boasted a star-studded cast and spare set where jurors deliberated a young man's fate en route to a wrenching climax.

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Any excuse for writing about Martin Balsam is a good one, and today's excuse is that "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" is in movie theaters.

Two Russian-set films open Friday at Circle Cinema. One is a recent foreign-language Academy Award nominee based on a 1950s American Oscar-nominated film, the other an original work that has garnered great acclaim.

"12" -- Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov loosely remakes Sidney Lumet's "12 Angry Men" with a dozen men in a makeshift jury room in modern-day Moscow debating race, class, justice, war and murder.

In 2005, an Oregon jury convicted Scott David Bowen of eight counts of raping, sodomizing, and sexually abusing his teenage daughter.

With a life on the line, jury deliberations get heated as a seemingly open-and-shut case gets complicated.

Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. Written by Mikhalkov, Vladimir Moiseyenko and Aleksandr Novototsky.

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Nicolet High School presents "12 Angry Jurors" WHAT: Nicolet High School production of "12 Angry Jurors" SYNOPSIS: Originally a television drama from the mid-1950s, "12 Angry Men" also was a successful movie starring Henry Fonda.