1) What was the occupation of Juror # 8 (Henry Fonda)



1) What was the occupation of Juror # 8 (Henry Fonda)?

2) According to the testimony during the trial, how long did it take the old man to get out of bed, walk down the hallway, and look out his door to see the defendant running downstairs after the murder?

3) Some of the jurors had a personal prejudice towards the case. What was the personal prejudice of Juror # 10 (Ed Begley)?

4) Towards the end of the movie, what was brought into reasonable doubt about the old woman’s testimony?

5) What was the occupation of Juror # 3 (Lee J. Cobb)?

6) What physical disability did the old man who lived in the apartment underneath the murder rooms suffer from?

7) What sort of knife was used to kill the murdered man?

8) In what way had the knife been stabbed into the body?

9) How did the accused account for the fact that the knife was missing?

10) What motive did some of the jury consider that the accused had for the murder of his father?

11) What is the accused’s alibi for the crucial time when the murder took place?

12) What does the old man in the apartment underneath the murder apartment claim to have heard at the time of the murder?

13) What was the female eyewitness doing when she witnessed the murder in the apartment across the street?

14) How is the evidence of the female eyewitness called into question during the discussion in the jury room?

15) Most of the jurors were convinced that the switch knife that was used to kill the murder victim belonged to the defendant. Much was made of its unusual carved handle. And the fact that the defendant had purchased a knife just like it on the day of the murder, but claimed he lost it before he was picked up by the police. How did Juror # 8 (Henry Fonda) cast doubt on the link between the murder weapon and the defendant?

16) Juror # 9 (Joseph Sweeney), the elderly man, was the first to change his vote to “not guilty” in support of Juror # 8. What was his reason for doing so?

17) The old man who lived downstairs from the murder victim swore that he heard the defendant yell, “I’m gonna kill you,” and then a split second later the sound of a body hitting the floor.. However, Juror # 8 convincingly argued that the old man couldn’t have identified the defendant’s voice, because of the sound of what other event that was taking place simultaneously?

18) Shortly before changing his vote to “not guilty”, Juror # 11, an immigrant watchmaker, admitted that he was having problems with one aspect of the defendant’s behavior on the night of the murder. What was troubling Juror # 11?

19) The old man who lived downstairs from the murder victim also claimed that he had rushed to the front door when he heard the commotion upstairs, and had gotten a good look at the murderer as he fled out of the apartment building. How did Juror # 8 demonstrate that the old man’s testimony was probably unreliable?

20) At one point during the deliberations, Juror # 3 had to be held back by the other jurors when he lunged at Juror # 8 and threatened to kill him. What did Juror # 8 say to Juror # 3 to provoke him?

21) The defendant’s alibi was that he was at the movie theater watching a double feature at the time of the murder. Why did Juror # 4 (E.G. Marshall) have a difficult time believing that this alibi was genuine?

22) After another two jurors changed their vote to “not guilty”, Juror # 10, the bigoted garage owner, went off on a racist tirade that targeted the ethnicity of the defendant. How did most of the other jurors react during this outburst?

23) Of the remaining three jurors who were voting “guilty”, Juror # 4, the logical stockbroker, was most convinced that the defendant’s guilt had been established by the testimony of the woman from across the street who witnessed the murder and identified the defendant as the killer. Ironically, it was something that Juror # 4 did that lead to a revelation about the woman that cast doubt on her testimony. What did Juror # 4 do?

24) Juror # 3 was easily the most vocal proponent of the defendant’s guilt When he was left as the only juror voting ‘guilty’, he tried to hold his ground but he eventually broke down in a gut-wrenching scene at the end of the film. It transpired that he was holding on to the idea that the defendant was guilty despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary because of a deep resentment he was harboring against a different person altogether. Who was Juror # 3 really angry with?

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