Dog Day Afternoon

Name: Dog Day Afternoon
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1975-09-21
Duration: 125 min
Rating: 7.851

★ 7,9 /10 (3,436 Votes)

1975 EN 125 min

Overview

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.

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Release date

21/09/1975

Votes

3,436

Popularity

7.0

Anything can happen during the dog days of summer. On August 22nd, 1972, everything did.

Genres

Crime Drama Thriller

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

125 min

Budget

$1,800,000

Revenue

$56,665,856

Al Pacino

Sonny

John Cazale

Sal

Charles Durning

Moretti

Chris Sarandon

Leon

James Broderick

Sheldon

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Penelope Allen

Sylvia

Sully Boyar

Mulvaney

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Beulah Garrick

Margaret

Carol Kane

Jenny

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Sandra Kazan

Deborah

Marcia Jean Kurtz

Miriam

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Amy Levitt

Maria

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John Marriott

Howard

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Estelle Omens

Edna

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Gary Springer

Stevie

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Carmine Foresta

Carmine

Lance Henriksen

Murphy

Floyd Levine

Phone Cop

Dick Anthony Williams

Limo Driver

Dominic Chianese

Father

Marcia Haufrecht

Neighbor

Judith Malina

Mother

Susan Peretz

Angie

William Bogert

TV Anchorman

Ron Cummins

TV Reporter

Jay Gerber

Sam

Philip Charles MacKenzie

Doctor

Chu Chu Malave

Maria's Boyfriend

Lionel Pina

Pizza Boy

Robert Costanzo

New York Policeman (uncredited)

Ron Gilbert

Detective (uncredited)

Kenneth McMillan

Commissioner (uncredited)

Ed Metzger

Sgt. Murray (uncredited)

Lynette Sheldon

Sadie (uncredited)

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Alan Berger

Lout (uncredited)

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James Bulleit

Sgt. Gillis (uncredited)

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Todd Everett

Cop (uncredited)

Raymond Serra

New York Plainclothes Cop (uncredited)

Tom Towles

Cop (uncredited)

Original Soundtrack

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Recently I have gotten on kicks for both watching and appreciating the works of director Sidney Lumet and the classic (i.e., 70's) performances of Al Pacino. Thus I came across this film, which I had on DVD forever. It'll interesting to watch the recent documentary on the character Pacino portrays, 'The Dog'--just found out about it earlier today. I loved Lumet's films he made before this that I've seen--'12 Angry Men', 'The Fugitive Kind', 'The Hill', 'The Anderson Tapes' and 'Murder on the Orient Express'--and he's superb at getting the gradual self-destruction of his characters that just se…

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**A good film, but not as memorable as some people say.** Director Sidney Lumet created this film based on a true incident that is still the subject of study by police cadets today: a homosexual who decides to rob a bank to pay for his partner's sex change, but who takes the manager and the employees as hostages when things get complicated, and desperately tries not to be killed or arrested by the policemen, who surround the place and try to control a maddened crowd, who are not sympathetic to the authorities. The film was made and released in 1975, and it could not be more appropriate to t…

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