Robert Webber

Private Benjamin movie trailer - starring Armand Assante, Harry Dean Stanton, Goldie Hawn, Sam Wanamaker, Eileen Brennan. Directed by Howard Zieff. Genre: Comedy Rating: R

12 Angry Men, by Sidney Lumet, may be the most radical courtroom drama in cinema history. A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system that is as riveting as it is spare, this iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose’s teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the dissenting member on a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. The result is a saga of epic proportions that plays out over a tense afternoon in one sweltering room. Lumet’s electrifying snapshot of 1950s America on the verge of change is one of the great feature film debuts.

Tom Topor's story of a prostitute who attempts to prove that she is mentally competent to stand trial for allegedly murdering a client. Fine casting!

Joseph Wambaugh disowned this awful screen version of his serio-comic chronicle of Los Angeles police officers who cause as much havoc on their beats as they try to prevent.