Negotiation

12 Angry Men

Submitted by: Pam McDonald

E-mail: Pam_McDonald@nifc.blm.gov

Phone: 208-387-5318

Audience Rating: Not Rated

Released: 1957

Studio: United Artists/MGM

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 95 minutes

Materials: VCR or DVD, television or projection system, Wildland Fire Leadership Values and Principles handouts (single-sided), notepad, writing utensil

Objective: Students will identify Wildland Fire Leadership Values and Principles illustrated within 12 Angry Men and discuss leadership lessons learned with group members or mentors.

Basic Plot: The jury of twelve 'angry men,' entrusted with the power to send an uneducated, teenaged Puerto Rican, tenement-dwelling boy to the electric chair for killing his father with a switchblade knife, are literally locked into a small, claustrophobic rectangular room on a stifling hot summer day until they come up with a unanimous decision - either guilty or not guilty. The compelling, provocative film examines the twelve men's deep-seated personal prejudices, perceptual biases and weaknesses, indifference, anger, personalities, unreliable judgments, cultural differences, ignorance and fears, that threaten to taint their decision-making abilities, cause them to ignore the real issues in the case, and potentially lead them to a miscarriage of justice. (http://www.filmsite.org/twelve.html)

Cast of Main Characters:

Martin Balsam Juror 1 (Foreman; coach)

John Fiedler Juror 2 (Bank clerk; inexperienced juror)

Lee J. Cobb Juror 3 (Angry gentleman with photo of son)

E. G. Marshall Juror 4 (Stock Broker)

Jack Klugman Juror 5 (Grew up in the slums)

Edward Binns Juror 6 (Painter)

Jack Warden Juror 7 (Sports fan)

Henry Fonda Juror 8 (Architect; Man who doesn’t know)

Joseph Sweeney Juror 9 (Nice older gentleman)

Ed Begley Juror 10 (Prejudiced older gentleman with cold)

George Voskovec Juror 11 (Foreign watchmaker)

Robert...