Dog Day Afternoon
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 screenplay is written by Frank Pierson and is based on the Life magazine article "The Boys in the Bank" by P. F. Kluge and Thomas Moore. The feature chronicles the 1972 robbery and hostage situation led by John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile at a Chase Manhattan branch in Brooklyn.
Plot
On August 22, 1972, first-time crook Sonny Wortzik and his friends Salvatore "Sal" Naturile and Stevie attempt to rob the First Brooklyn Savings Bank. The plan immediately goes awry when Stevie loses his nerve and flees. Sonny discovers they arrived after the daily cash pickup which left only $1,100 in cash at the bank. Sonny takes the bank's traveler's checks and burns the register in a trash can. When smoke raises suspicion outside, the building is surrounded by police. The two panicked robbers take the bank employees hostage.
Awards
Cast
- Al Pacino
- Beulah Garrick
- Carol Kane
- Charles Durning
- Chris Sarandon
- Dick Anthony Williams
- Dominic Chianese
- Edwin Malave
- James Broderick
- John Cazale
- John Marriott
- Judith Malina
- Kenneth McMillan
- Lance Henriksen
- Lionel Pina
- Marcia Jean Kurtz
- Penelope Allen
- Philip Charles MacKenzie
- Robert Costanzo
- Ron Gilbert
- Sully Boyar
- Susan Peretz
- Tom Towles