The credits roll over a high-angle shot: jurors enter the deliberation room, where we’ll spend the remaining 93 minutes of the running time. Forty years separated me and my last viewing of 12 Angry Men. It wasn’t until yesterday — and with an assist from IMDb — that I noticed the manner in which director Sidney Lumet manipulates space in the jury room. We open with the camera slightly elevated, looking down, to establish a distance between the jurors and the audience. Time passes, we become familiar with the characters, and the camera takes on a more trusting eye-level angle. With a third of the way left to go, director of photography Boris Kaufman replaces the wide angle lens with its compressing telephoto counterpart. The additional subterranean placement of the camera helps to establish the sense of claustrophobia that dominates the third act. Reginald Rose’s dialogue has a tendency to become monotonous, but as filmed-theatre goes, you could do a lot worse. The cast includes Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, Martin Balsam, E.J. Marshall, and Jack Klugman. Discussion after the film. — Scott Marks