History Trivia / TwelveAngryMen

* ReferencedBy: The title is spoofed by the ''Series/MorkAndMindy'' episode "Twelve Angry Appliances".

* RoleReprise: The elderly Juror #9 (Joseph Sweeney) has played the role before in the 1954 teleplay, being the only cast member to be in both the 1954 and 1957 adaptations.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Edward Arnold was to be the other cast member (aside from Joseph Sweeney) 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.

* SwanSong: The partial 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.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $340,000. Box office, $1 million (rentals). This film was dwarfed by color films released then, but was acclaimed by critics and is one of the most important films ever made.

* 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.

** In Finland the film was released as "Valamiesten ratkaisu", meaning "The Jurors Decision"

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film is from the era when a trip to the movies typically involved an A-picture and a B-picture, leading to the defendant's alibi being flimsy as he couldn't remember either movie he saw, followed by #4 easily remembering the A-picture he saw several days ago but not the B-picture.

* UsefulNotes/AFIS100YearsSeries:
** AFIS100Years100Thrills: #88
** AFIS100Years100HeroesAndVillains:
*** #28 Hero, Juror #8
** AFIS100Years100Cheers: #42
** AFIS100Years100Movies10THAnniversaryEdition: #87
** AFIS10Top10:
*** #2, Courtroom Drama

* AFIS100YearsSeries:

** In Spain the movie was released as ''12 Hombres Sin Piedad'' - ''12 Merciless Men''.

----
* AcclaimedFlop: Universally praised by critics, but it barely made up it's budget in box office returns, with a meager $1,000,000 in rentals (against a $340,000 budget) to show for it.

* AFIS100Years100Thrills: #88
* AFIS100Years100HeroesAndVillains:
** #28 Hero, Juror #8
* AFIS100Years100Cheers: #42
* AFIS100Years100Movies10THAnniversaryEdition: #87
* AFIS10Top10:
** #2, Courtroom Drama

* AcclaimedFlop: Universally praised by critics, but it barely made up it's budget in box office returns, with a meager 1,000,000$ in rentals (against a 340,000$ budget) to show for it.

** #2, Courtroom Drama

* AFIS100YEARS100HEROESANDVILLAINS:

* AFIS100YEARS100CHEERS: #42

* The movie has received a significant amount of attention from [[AFIS100YearsSeries the American Film Institute's 100 Years series]], which has voted it variously as being [[AFIS10Top10 one of the top ten]] Courtroom Dramas (#2), [[AFIS100Years100Movies #87 for top films in general]] with Juror No.8 coming in [[AFIS100Years100HeroesAndVillains #28 for greatest Hero in film for the century]], among many other awards.