Lumet was well equipped to fill all the roles of a movie director: field-marshal, picture-painter, script

surgeon and psychiatrist. Two years after 12 Angry Men, he got a handful in Brando (whom, a decade

before, he had replaced in Ben Hecht's Israel agit-prop play A Flag Is Born). For Osborne, Lumet recalled how Brando would "test the director. He'd give you two takes. In one of them he'd be working really fully

— by that I mean on an internal level. And in the other one, the outside form would be identical but he'd

be doing nothing inside. And he'd watch and see which one you'd print. And if you printed the wrong one

you'd had it."