12 Angry Men - Criterion #591 4K UHD + Blu-ray

12 Angry Men, directed by Sidney Lumet, may be the most radical courtroom drama in cinema history. A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system that is as riveting as it is spare, this iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose’s teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the dissenting member on a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. The result is a saga of epic proportions that plays out over a tense afternoon in one sweltering room. Lumet’s electrifying snapshot of 1950s America on the verge of change is one of the great feature-film debuts.

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features

Television version from 1954 of 12 Angry Men, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner for the series Studio One, with an introduction by Ron Simon, curator at the Paley Center for Media

Production history of 12 Angry Men, from teleplay to big-screen classic

Archival interviews with director Sidney Lumet

Interview with screenwriter Walter Bernstein about Lumet

Interview with Simon about writer Reginald Rose

Tragedy in a Temporary Town (1956), a teleplay directed by Lumet and written by Rose

Interview with cinematographer John Bailey about director of photography Boris Kaufman

Trailer

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

PLUS: An essay by writer and law professor Thane Rosenbaum

Cover by Sean Phillips