12 Angry Men.......wow, still so powerful.

[a kennedy]

Just watched my DVR copy.......

[mahina]

1. Have you ever seen the Russian version? It is out if this world

Excellent. “12”

Rats, you have to go directly to YouTube for that so here’s IMDb
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0488478/

The Russian version makes me appreciate the original version as timeless literature.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. It was on TCM last night and I watched it, too.

Fabulous film.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

3. I loved that movie, but it so would have ended in a mistrial

That jury was out of control.

[Aristus]

4. I once played Juror #10 in a local production about twenty-five years ago.

I just wasn’t able to connect with the character, for obvious reasons. So I wasn’t really able to get the performance just right.

Until the final dress rehearsal. I was somehow able to nail his final racist rant, and it came out perfectly. When I was done, I had to sit down and collect myself, I was shaking so badly.

[Staph]

5. A local theatre group put on the play a few years ago.

With the audience in bleachers, close to the sides of the "jury room". The theatre company placed temporary walls around the sides and back of those bleachers, so we were all inside the room. Those in the front row could reach out and touch the actors.

When the climactic argument begins, the audience was leaning back in their seats, as if to escape. It was extremely powerful!