It’s the summer of 1972, and Sonny Wortzik and Salvatore Naturile are robbing a bank in New York City. Not the work of hardened bankrobbers, the hold up is supposed to finance a sex change operation for Sonny’s transsexual boyfriend. It turns out that the bank has very little cash, and when the FBI turn up, the two robbers are forced to hold the bank employees hostage. A ten minute stick up escalates into a twelve hour drama.
Dog Day Afternoon is an undisputed classic, and it has shaped every gangster movie in its wake. Al Pacino, not to mention John Cazale, practically owned the seventies, and this is maybe the highlight of both men’s careers. Sidney Lumet has made not only one of the best heist movies of all time, but he also manages to perfectly depict early seventies New York. The optimism had hit rock bottom, and anyone more heroic than Sonny Wortzik was not to be reckoned with.
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ORIGINAL TITLE
Dog Day Afternoon
ENGLISH TITLE
Dog Day Afternoon
SELECTION: Cinerama
COUNTRY: USA
LANGUAGE: English
SUBTITLES: None
PROD. YEAR: 1975
RUNNING TIME: 125 minutes
DIRECTOR: Sidney Lumet
WRITER: Frank Pierson
PRODUCER: Martin Bregman, Martin Elfand
PHOTO: Victor J. Kemper
PRODUCTION: Artists Entertainment Complex
CAST: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, Lance Henriksen
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