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A 1975 crime drama film based on a true story of a bank robbery and hostage situation in Brooklyn. Al Pacino stars as Sonny, a gay man who robs the bank to pay for his lover's sex reassignment surgery.
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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.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Sidney Lumet
- 1975-12-25
- 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
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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...
John Wojtowicz was a gay activist who robbed a bank in 1972 to pay for his partner's gender-reassignment surgery. His heist inspired the classic film Dog Day Afternoon, but the true story is even stranger and more fascinating than fiction.
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Crime. 120 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1975. Roger Ebert. January 1, 1975. 3 min read. Al Pacino and John Cazale. There’s a point midway in “Dog Day Afternoon” when a bank’s head teller, held hostage by two very nervous stick-up men, is out in the street with a chance to escape. The cops tell her to run.
When inexperienced criminal Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino) leads a bank robbery in Brooklyn, things quickly go wrong, and a hostage situation develops. As Sonny and his accomplice, Sal Naturile (John ...
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- Sidney Lumet
- R
- Al Pacino
On one of the hottest days of August 1972, three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn 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.
Find out who starred in the classic crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and based on a true story. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, and other crew members on IMDb.
