Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Dog Day Afternoon

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Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon (1975). A botched Brooklyn bank robbery on a sweltering August afternoon expands into an hours-long hostage standoff, a televised media event, and an unexpected gay-rights public moment. Based on the August 22, 1972 robbery of a Chase Manhattan branch on Avenue P in Gravesend by John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Screenplay by Frank Pierson from P.F. Kluge and Thomas Moore's 1972 Life magazine article "The Boys in the Bank." Stars Al Pacino as Sonny Wortzik, John Cazale as Sal, Charles Durning as Detective Sgt. Eugene Moretti, Chris Sarandon as Leon Shermer, and James Broderick as FBI Agent Sheldon.