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12 Angry Men(1957)
Released
1957 · FILM

12 Angry Men

A jury of twelve must confront their own biases and secrets in a high-stakes deliberation that could determine whether a "slum kid" is sentenced to death for killing his abusive father.

“It explodes like 12 sticks of dynamite!”

Directed by
Sidney Lumet
Written by
Reginald Rose
Rated
MPA · Approved
Color
Black & White
Runtime
96 min
CrimeDrama

Synopsis

In *12 Angry Men*, the defense and prosecution have concluded their arguments, and the jury enters the jury room to deliberate whether a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What initially appears to be a clear-cut case quickly evolves into a tense and revealing drama as each juror's personal biases and assumptions about the trial, the defendant, and one another come to the surface.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 48+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Carl LernerShot by Boris KaufmanScored by Kenyon HopkinsSound by Al Gramaglia

Box Office

1957 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 11× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$4.4M

Budget$398K
Worldwide gross$4.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Die 12 Geschworenende
  • Die zwölf Geschworenende
  • (alternative spelling)Doce hombres en pugna
  • Twelve Angry Menen
  • Doce hombres en pugnaes
  • 12 hommes en colèrefr
  • Douze hommes en colèrefr
  • La parola ai giuratiit
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • United StatesApr 10, 1957
  • CanadaApr 13, 1957
  • United KingdomApr 18, 1957
  • GermanyJun 21, 1957
  • SwitzerlandJul 1, 1957

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ProductionOrion-Nova Productions

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