Double Feature
12 Angry Men
Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley and Jack Klugman lead the distinctive cast of jurors whose character portrayals are “perfect in every detail” (The Hollywood Reporter). With its star-powered cast and four Oscar nominations including Best Picture, 12 Angry Men is a powerful, suspenseful and “fascinatingly entertaining film” (Los Angeles Examiner). Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others towards the same conclusion? It’s a case of seemingly overwhelming evidence against a teenager accused of killing his father in “one of the best pictures ever made” (The Hollywood Reporter). (MGM)
- Director
- Sidney Lumet
- Writer
- Story and Screenplay by Reginald Rose
- Starring
- Starring Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Jack Klugman
- Year
- 1957
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 96 minutes
Fail Safe
One of the greatest anti-war thrillers ever, Fail Safe stars Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Dan O’Herlihy, Larry Hagman and Fritz Weaver (in his film debut) as a group of military men on the verge of World War III. When a military computer error deploys a squadron of SAC bombers to destroy Moscow, the American President (Fonda) tries to call them back. But their sophisticated fail-safe system prevents him from aborting the attack, so he must convince the Soviets not to retaliate. A four-star techno-thriller that builds tension and suspense with every tick of the nuclear clock. (Sony Pictures)
- Director
- Sidney Lumet
- Writer
- Screenplay by Walter Bernstein from the novel by Eugene Burdick & Harvey Wheeler
- Starring
- Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Edward Binns, Larry Hagman, Fritz Weaver, Henry Fonda
- Year
- 1964
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 112 minutes