Twelve Angry Men
Author(s): Reginald Rose
The Penguin Classics debut that inspired a classic film and a current Broadway revival
Reginald Rose's landmark American drama was a critically acclaimed teleplay, and went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, "Twelve Angry Men" holds at its core a deeply patriotic belief in the U.S. legal system. The story's focal point, known only as Juror Eight, is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their personal biases. Rose deliberately and carefully peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture of America, at its best and worst, to form.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin Publishing Group
- : Penguin Books
- : 0.082
- : 01 April 2006
- : 196mm X 128mm X 7mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Reginald Rose
- : Paperback / softback
- : 906
- : English
- : 73
- : DD