I’ve always believed this. 12 Angry Men is unwittingly a movie about how 12 jurors’ weak will and self-congratulatory image-making lets a murderer go free. Jury duty is not narrative, its not the enactment of a myth, its a civic job. Though to be fair, when actual criminal jurors fail to be tough-minded, it needn’t be in favor of the defendant.

Gotta say that if there’s any scene better than alcoholic Dean Martin, two days on the wagon, rousting a hostile saloon for a murderer, John Wayne backing him up, I’d like to know it.

According to a new study.

So why does Hollywood keep packing their movies with it?

I watched this the other night.  Hugely overrated.  (Spoiler below.)

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