Reginald Rose's landmark American drama was a critically acclaimed teleplay, and went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic belief in the U.S. legal syst…
from the back cover: At first, no one is concerned about what seem to be meteors or falling stars dropping from the sky--until they are revealed to be fleet of alien spaceships carrying Martians determined to overtake the Earth. Humankind's most advanced technology is old-fashioned by Martian standards. Can the aliens' death march be stopped? Find out in this electrifying science fiction mast…