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Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 American biographical crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and produced by Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand. The film stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, James Broderick, and Charles Durning.
The Romans sacrificed a brown dog at the beginning of the Dog Days to appease the rage of Sirius, believing that the star was the cause of the hot, sultry weather. In modern times, the term refers to those hot, sleepy afternoons when dogs (and people) prefer to lay around and languish in the summer heat.
Sep 29, 2023 · It ranks among the most infamous bank robberies in modern history and inspired the classic film Dog Day Afternoon. But in the case of the 1972 New York bank heist committed by John Wojtowicz and his associates, the true story is even stranger and more fascinating than fiction.
In 1972, a Brooklyn bank robbery intended to fund a sex-change operation turned into a day-long standoff. Three years later, Sidney Lumet turned that strange story into Dog Day Afternoon, a...
An afternoon in the part of the summer often thought to be hottest, usually considered to be July 3 to August 11. As such, it is often related to feelings of lethargy. In ancient times, people associated the heat during this period with the concurrent rising of Sirius, nicknamed "the dog star."
Mar 27, 2018 · Dog Day Afternoon is a movie about a man whose actions do not reflect his character. Sonny (Al Pacino) attempts to rob a bank to obtain the money for his lover’s (Leon’s) sex-change operation. His accomplice, Sal, threatens to shoot the employees of the bank if anyone tries to mess up their plan.
Jun 25, 2023 · Dog Day Afternoon, the masterful American crime film directed by Sidney Lumet and penned by Frank Pierson, tells the darkly comic yet strangely touching true story of two misguided men embarking on a bank heist gone wrong.
