Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- One of the best-reviewed films Cue holds.
The story
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
- death penalty
- anonymity
- court case
- judge
- jurors
- innocence
- witness
- knife
- matter of life and death
- based on play or musical
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Jack Klugman — Juror 5
- Edward Binns — Juror 6
- Jack Warden — Juror 7
- Henry Fonda — Juror 8
- Joseph Sweeney — Juror 9
- Ed Begley — Juror 10
- George Voskovec — Juror 11
- Robert Webber — Juror 12
- Rudy Bond — Judge (uncredited)
- Tom Gorman — Stenographer (uncredited)
- James Kelly — Guard (uncredited)
- Directed
- Sidney Lumet
- Written
- Reginald Rose
Production
- Rating
- 8.6 / 10 · 10,326 ratings
- Studio
- Orion-Nova Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
