The movie is about an hour and a half long and it involves a jury making a decision about a boy's innocence. By the end, 12 men which make up the jury must either mark this boy as "guilty" or "not guilty" for stabbing his father ten minutes after midnight. It is REMARKABLE to find these gentlemen, all from varying backgrounds and pasts come together and make logic of fragmented trial evidence (apparently the boy's lawyer wasn't very good...). In this extraordinary case, the men must not only use their brains but overcome their prejudices.
It is a MUST SEE film, rated #8 on IMDB's top 250 movie list, and it is probably the ONLY OLD movie worth watching (in my opinion...). It released in 1957, but this movie is TREASURE, and with its simplicity and down-to-earth arguments, it is spectacularly interesting to see.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!!
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