I’m teaching a technical communication course this summer and using the film 12 Angry Men as “raw material” for students to use in analyzing positive and negative communication behaviors commonly found on project teams. In doing some class prep, I happened across the original poster for this movie . . . and burst out laughing. Literally lol-ing out loud! 🙂
“12 Angry Men” poster – By Illustrator unknown; “Copyright 1957 United Artists Corp.” – Scan via Heritage Auctions. Cropped from the original image., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=85718046
So much of 1950s film and literature relies on this type of B-movie, pulp-fiction, trashy kind of copy. Why was that?
Anyway, in case your day could use a bit of a lift, I thought I’d share 🙂
By the way, the original 12 Angry Men (1957) is a movie that still holds up really well in terms of 21st-century viewing sensibilities. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend giving it a try!
Katherine Wikoff 
It is an excellent movie. But nothing like the poster suggests! I suppose theater owners then, as now, were trying to get people in the seats.
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It sure makes me wonder about the state of American culture back then!
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Maybe it’s related to being a drama in black & white. Perhaps the movie posters are colorful to compensate? I think at the time, Hollywood was pretty full of itself. The Acadamy Awards was one of those national events we all watched. Or maybe they just thought twelve guys in a room didn’t seem like that much of an exciting movie and wanted to make it appear more lurid.
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