Twelve Angry Men: Homicide Trial
Twelve Angry Men is a drama written by Reginald Rose concerning the jury of a homicide trial. It was broadcasted initially as a television play in 1954. The following year it made it's path to the stage, and was made a highly successful film. Since then it has been given numerous remakes, adaptations, and tributes.
The play concerns the deliberations of the jury of a homicide trial. At the beginning, they have a nearly unanimous decision of guilty, with a single dissenter of not guilty, who throughout the play sews a seed of reasonable doubt. This was first made as a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series, and aired as a live CBS Television production on the September 20th 1954. The drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title.
Rose wrote several spin offs of the story. In 1964, Leo Genn appeared in the play on the London stage. In other theatrical adaptations in which female actors are cast, the play is retitled 12 Angry …show more content…
It was nominated for Academy Awards in the categories of Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing of Adapted Screenplay. Many television series have episodes based on the teleplay. These include Hancock's Half Hour, Picket Fences, Perfect Strangers, Family Matters, The Dead Zone, Early Edition, The Odd Couple, King of the Hill, Matlock, 7th Heaven, Veronica Mars, Monk, Hey Arnold!, Peep Show, My Wife and Kids, Robot Chicken, Sesame Street, and Charmed.
A season 11 episode of Family Guy, "12 and a Half Angry Men," is a parody of this film, where the town mayor is accused of murder, with Brian and Peter called to be members of the jury and Brian taking on the position of the eighth juror. Season three of Inside Amy Schumer devoted an episode to one sketch, a parody of 12 Angry Men where the twelve men must decide if Amy Schumer is hot enough to have her own TV
The play concerns the deliberations of the jury of a homicide trial. At the beginning, they have a nearly unanimous decision of guilty, with a single dissenter of not guilty, who throughout the play sews a seed of reasonable doubt. This was first made as a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series, and aired as a live CBS Television production on the September 20th 1954. The drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title.
Rose wrote several spin offs of the story. In 1964, Leo Genn appeared in the play on the London stage. In other theatrical adaptations in which female actors are cast, the play is retitled 12 Angry …show more content…
It was nominated for Academy Awards in the categories of Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing of Adapted Screenplay. Many television series have episodes based on the teleplay. These include Hancock's Half Hour, Picket Fences, Perfect Strangers, Family Matters, The Dead Zone, Early Edition, The Odd Couple, King of the Hill, Matlock, 7th Heaven, Veronica Mars, Monk, Hey Arnold!, Peep Show, My Wife and Kids, Robot Chicken, Sesame Street, and Charmed.
A season 11 episode of Family Guy, "12 and a Half Angry Men," is a parody of this film, where the town mayor is accused of murder, with Brian and Peter called to be members of the jury and Brian taking on the position of the eighth juror. Season three of Inside Amy Schumer devoted an episode to one sketch, a parody of 12 Angry Men where the twelve men must decide if Amy Schumer is hot enough to have her own TV