Review of 12 Angry Men

Somehow I'd never got round to seeing this, even though it's a classic...but our local film club was showing it. We couldn't go, so I obtained it and we watched it a few days later.

It's really good, with Henry Fonda as the liberal juror who gradually wins over the other members of a jury in a murder case, worrying away at the details to convince them, one by one, that there are after all grounds for reasonable doubt in what at first seemed like an open-and-shut case. All character actors, a claustrophobic theatre-like setting in one room, and lots of close-ups of the jurors' faces. For me Lee J Cobb as the last to be convinced steals the show.

Chromecast, VLC, informal distribution.