I do, but I don't think the death penalty was warranted, considering his age and the abuse he suffered. Also, I don't think the witnesses were being truthful, as Fonda pointed out, and think there was some coercion taking place with them. That alone makes me distrust the prosecution.

Have to agree with "Proven Innocent" because "12 Angry Men" occurs during the Code years, when the Golden Age of Film are true Classics, along with Silents and Early Talkies.

Nothing that great has come out of Hollywood since except for some of the good quality Television series, which also adhere to the Code, such as .

Okay, maybe more, but you just do not have the Greats out there, like L Olivier, W Warren or H Fonda, and you just know that they're not going to approve of a faulty script, which "12 Angry Men" may have been if the arrested suspect weren't framed.

Just think of how often Perry Mason, Mrs. Fletcher or Ben Matlock stumble across similar situations, where inept law enforcers arrest the wrong suspect, and it's up to the star to uncover the truth.

British sleuths also face this malady because you have your Miss Marple, your Sherlock and Watson, your Morse, Lewis and Hathaway, and your H Ross Pierot all doing the same hard work to prove the faulty system incorrect.

Okay, so maybe H Fonda messed up on a couple of other things, like too much lenient permissiveness on behalf of his rebel kids, but on-screen, he's a lot smarter than you'd think, and here he proves himself the improver of a script worthy of the Code.

And besides, Perry Mason, Mrs. Fletcher, Ben Matlock, Miss Marple, your Sherlock, Watson, Morse, Lewis, Hathaway, and H Ross Pierot would all certainly stop to lend an ear to what H Fonda has to say in this regard: "Somebody else dunnit."

I think he did it despite Fonda's passionate defence of him, coupled with some compelling suggestions that he couldn't have done it.

As Fonda kept on mentioning, there has to no reasonable doubt before convicting a man for execution. Fonda made lots of assumptions, some of them quite desperate. But I was never wholly convinced behind any of them and I truly felt the boy did kill his father.