12 ANGRY MEN
TCM, 9:45 p.m. ET
Part of today’s all-day Lee J. Cobb festival on TCM, this 1957 movie stars Henry Fonda as the lone initial holdout on a jury otherwise ready to convict a young defendant of murder. Cobb (pictured) plays the angry Juror No. 3 – a role played in its original live TV version, on Studio One in 1954, by Franchot Tone, opposite Robert Cummings in the role later played by Fonda. I prefer the TV version to the movie, but the movie’s still a very enjoyable drama to watch. Just try not to think about Amy Schumer’s recent half-hour offshoot, when the dozen jurors, on Inside Amy Schumer, were arguing something quite different than a murder verdict.