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Oct 7, 2012 · When Sonny's lover, Leon (Chris Sarandon), tries to talk Sonny out of the bank, we learn the robbery's motive: to finance Leon's sex-change operation. Sonny demands a plane to escape, but the end...
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Apr 13, 2023 · On a very special episode of Movie of the Year: 1975, the Taste Buds bring their own brand of off-kilter hi-jinx to the 1975 cinematic classic, Dog Day Afternoon. In this capital-F Film, a...
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- Who Was John Wojtowicz?
- An Odd Robbery and The Hostage Situation That Followed
- The Aftermath of John Wojtowicz’S Heist and The Film It Inspired
John Wojtowicz, born in New York City in 1945, was leading a basically “normal” life in the late 1960s. After graduating high school and serving in Vietnam, he returned home and began working for Chase Manhattan Bank, where he struck up a relationship with a coworker named Carmen Bifulco. The pair married in 1967, but Wojtowicz had been keeping a s...
Eager to get the money for Eden’s gender-reassignment surgery (although, according to the BBC, some claim that John Wojtowicz actually carried out the robbery to pay back money he’d borrowed from the Mafia), Wojtowicz soon put together a team that would help him rob a bank. He recruited Bobby Westenberg and Salvatore Naturile (both of whom he’d met...
Wojtowicz was sentenced to 20 years in prison but only wound up serving five and was released in 1978. While in prison, he actually was able to see Dog Day Afternoon and take in the lead performance of Al Pacino, who had, of course, also starred in The Godfather, which Wojtowicz had watched the day of the robbery. The warden initially objected to h...
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Dog Day Afternoon: Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar, John Cazale, Beulah Garrick. Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Bank robber Sonny (Al Pacino), now holding hostages, rallies the Brooklyn crowd, citing the infamous 1971 prison riot, after an obscene in-person confrontation with cop Moretti (Charles Durning), a famous scene from Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon, 1975.
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Jun 6, 2023 · Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.
