"Clearly, Reginald Rose, who wrote the original teleplay as well as the
film script, intended the unnamed defendant—we’ll just call him The Kid,
as the jurors generally do—to be innocent." No, just no. The entire point of the movie is that we don't know if the defendant is innocent or not. Nothing presented by Fonda…

"Clearly, Reginald Rose, who wrote the original teleplay as well as the
film script, intended the unnamed defendant—we’ll just call him The Kid,
as the jurors generally do—to be innocent." No, just no. The entire point of the movie is that we don't know if the defendant is innocent or not. Nothing presented by Fonda…