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Directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Henry Fonda, Jack Klugman, Lee J. Cobb (add more)

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Nowhere in the film or in the original play is it ever indicated that the murder defendant is Puerto Rican. [Pointing out what is obvious to anyone watching the film is not trivia.]
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Juror Robert Webber says 'it's five after six, let's get some dinner.' Yet, 20 minutes later, as Juror Lee J. Cobb breaks down and sobs 'not guilty,' his wristwatch reads 5:10. [The assertion that there is a continuity error here is not valid. Cobb's watch (as is anyone's anytime in life, movies, or anywhere) could have simply stopped or ran slow. There would have to be another "foundation" present to categorize the 5:10 time as a lack of continuity, so it cannot be regarded as an inconsistency - unless you could establish through the film's circumstances that his watch never slowed or stopped.]
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In the scene where one juror starts his racist diatribe and all the others leave the table, the man who is the last to change his vote is missing from the room. [The man is not missing from the room - he has already got up and stood by the window before the diatribe starts, and is still there throughout the diatribe.]
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Henry Fonda goes into the jury room humming and harring about making a proper decision and talking it through and so on and so on. Then halfway through the film, talking about the unique switchblade that was crucial to the prosecution's case, he pulls a matching knife out of his pocket and sticks it in the table. If he had a duplicate switchblade all along, why didn't he just show it to the court, or to the jurors as soon as they entered the room? [Jurors are not allowed to introduce evidence, speak up in defense of the defendant, or in attack of same. Counsel for the defense and the prosecution are the only individuals allowed to introduce evidence or present arguments. The jury's sole responsibility is to make what they can out of the evidence they are presented.]
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In the bathroom scene, you can see the guy leave before Fonda does. The door swings like one of those western saloons. Then in the next scene, you can see in the background, Fonda opens the door with the knob, walks out, and closes it. [There are two doors between the bathroom and the jury room. The first door entering the bathroom has a knob. The second door is a swinging door.]
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The character played by Jack Warden was making a statement about the defendant being a loser, and playing the part of a real baseball fan, uses the statement "He is 5 for 0". He should have said 0 for 5 referring to no hits in five at-bats. The remake of the movie by Showtime corrected this error. [Many old-time baseball people say it this way when they really men "0 for 5". I have heard old-time sportswriters and announcers use this terminology also. Modern announcers and writers don't use it as much, hence it not being replicated in the newer version.]
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