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A landmark American drama which inspired a classic film and a 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 ot
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Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Release date: 29 August 2006
ISBN-10 : 0143104403 | ISBN-13: 9780143104407
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Book Diary 2020 (112 books items)" It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth. Look, this boy's been kicked around all his life. You know-living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. He spent a year and a half in an orphanage while his father served a jail term for forgery. That's not a very good head start. He's had a pretty terrible sixteen years. I think maybe we owe him a few words. That's all."