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.
Read the NYT Obit Here.
