Meaning: Any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth. Classified under: Nouns denoting animals. Hypernyms (porpoise is a kind of...): dolphin (any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of porpoise): harbor porpoise; herring hog; Phocaena phocaena (the common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific)
12 Angry Men (1957). The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father.
Twelve Angry Men. Twelve Angry Men is a drama written by Reginald Rose concerning the jury of a homicide trial. It was broadcast initially as a television play in 1954. The following year it was adapted for the stage, and in 1957 was made into a highly successful film. Since then it has been given numerous remakes, adaptations, and tributes.