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1	* AcclaimedFlop: Universally praised by critics, but it barely made up its budget in box office returns, with a meager $1,000,000 in rentals (against a $340,000 budget) to show for it.
2	* ActorSharedBackground: Juror #11, the European immigrant, has a speech about how America is supposed to be a country where you can say what you like without fear. His actor, George Voskovec, was born in Czechoslovakia and worked in radical theatre there before coming to the USA in 1939. In 1950, seven years before this film was made, he'd been detained in Ellis Island on suspicion of being a communist. Arguably also an example of IronyAsSheIsCast, then.
3	* BreakthroughHit: For Creator/SidneyLumet.
4	* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
5	** In Germany, the film was released as ''Die zwölf Geschworenen'' - "The Twelve Jurors".
6	** In Italy, the film was released as ''La Parola Ai Giurati'', meaning approximately, "Let's Hear The Jury Members"
7	** In Spain the movie was released as ''12 Hombres Sin Piedad'' - "12 Merciless Men".
8	** In Sweden the film was released as "12 edsvurna män", meaning approximately "12 Men Under Oath".[[note]]Under juror's oath that is, as they are jurors.[[/note]]
9	** In Finland the film was released as "Valamiesten ratkaisu", meaning "The Jurors Decision".
10	* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: This was one of Creator/HenryFonda's favourite films of his own.
11	* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/HenryFonda and Creator/SidneyLumet both deferred their salaries for the film.
12	* MissingEpisode: In Poland, the film was dubbed twice: in 1959 for cinematic release and in 1973 for television broadcast. In 1989 it turned out that last 30 minutes from TV dub have been lost. Dubbing director of this version was asked to make next, third in all, dub. She refused, volunteering to recreate missing material with surviving actors (and replacement for the one that already died) instead. As of 2022, only TV dub with scenes redubbed in 1989 is floating online, with cinematic dub and original version of TV dub being still considered lost.
13	* ReferencedBy: The title is spoofed by the ''Series/MorkAndMindy'' episode "Twelve Angry Appliances".
14	* RoleReprise: Two of the cast members in the 1957 film -- Joseph Sweeney (#9) and George Voskovec (#11) -- are the originators of the parts, having played them in the 1954 television version.
15	* SwanSong: The partial Polish 1989 redub of the 1957 film turned out to be the last dub Szczepan Baczyński (who voiced Juror #9 in TV dub) participated. During his walk home after he finished recording all his lines, he was hit by a car and died.
16	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Edward Arnold was to be the other cast member to reprise his role (Juror #10) from the 1954 teleplay, but he died of a heart attack before production began, and replaced by Creator/EdBegley.

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