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A 16 year old has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father.
"He doesn't stand a chance," mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are
taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open-and-shut case—until one
of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts. "This is a
remarkable thing about democracy," says the foreign-born juror, "that
we are notified by mail to come down to this place—and decide on the guilt or
innocence of a person; of a man or woman we have not known before. We have
nothing to gain or lose by our verdict. We should not make it a personal
thing." But personal it is, with each juror revealing his own character as
the various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-enacted, and a new
murder threat is born before their eyes! Tempers get short, arguments grow
heated, and the jurors become 12 angry men. The jurors' final verdict and how
they reach it, add up to a fine, mature piece of dramatic literature.
Adapted
by Sherman L. Sergel. Based on
the Emmy award-winning television movie by Reginald Rose.
Produced
by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock,
Illinois.
