Sidney Lumet, a director who preferred the streets of New York to the back lots of Hollywood and whose stories of conscience — “
12 Angry Men,” “
Serpico,” “
Dog Day Afternoon,” “
The Verdict,” “
Network” — became modern American film classics, died Saturday morning at his home in Manhattan. He was 86.
In his first film, “12 Angry Men” (1957), he took his cameras into a jury room where the pressure mounted as one tenacious and courageous juror (
Henry Fonda) slowly convinced the others that the individual on trial for murder was in fact innocent.
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And don't forget his posh all-star version of Murder on the Orient Express. I think that movie single-handedly created a revival of Christie mania in the late 70s. And I believe it just a few months before her death. Even though Albert Finney's Poirot was bizarre and hardly perfect I still have a great fondness for that movie.
ReplyDeleteYes, I went to the opening of Murder on the Orient Express in L.A. He was there.
ReplyDeleteSome directors are a director’s director. Sidney Lumet was a true classic director. A great man. He will be greatly missed. His family have our best wishes and prayers.
ReplyDeleteWe love you sidney!
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