The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

• United Artists
• Orion-Nova Productions
• Martin Balsam
• John Fiedler
• Lee J. Cobb
• E.G. Marshall
• Jack Klugman
• Edward Binns
• Jack Warden
• Henry Fonda