"12 Angry MEN"?

[jayjay]

@Khadaji

I don’t think Randel is dead. Nothing is mentioned in his Bio.

Dead. He died in 2004 of pneumonia.

[Mahaloth]

@Khadaji

I don’t think Randel is dead. Nothing is mentioned in his Bio.

Then somebody better explain this.

Tony Randall 1920-2004

[Siam_Sam]

Sad but true. The great Tony Randall is dead.

[Lizard]

@Wendell Wagner

When a TV movie was made of 12 Angry Men in 1997, they considered casting some of the parts with women, but they decided that it didn’t work. The film was too obviously about the conflicts of men. I recall from an interview that I read with the director or screenwriter that he said, “The play is all about testosterone, and it wouldn’t work with women on the jury.”

Sounds like a perfectly legit artistic choice to me, even if it is unrealistic. The makers of “Waiting to Exhale” or “Thelma & Louise” didn’t waste time focusing on the their male characters’ points of view, either.