A true crime story shot with authentic Brooklyn flair, Dog Day Afternoon features an electrifying performance by Al Pacino (“Attica! Attica!”) as an inept bank robber who’s looking for a quick score to pay for his male lover’s sex change operation. Instead, he sees his simple heist on a hot August day go miserably wrong, turning into a hostage-taking and a live television event that transfixes New York City.

Sidney Lumet, director of Dog Day Afternoon

Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, James Broderick, Beulah Garrick, Chris Sarandon, Sully Boyar, Sandra Kazan, Penny Allen, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Carol Kane, Amy Levitt, Lance Henriksen, John Marriott, Estelle Omens, Dick Williams, Philip Charles MacKenzie, Gary Springer, Carmine Foresta, Floyd Levine, Dominic Chianese, Marcia Haufrecht, Judith Malina, Susan Peretz, William Bogert, Ron Cummins, Jay Gerber, Chu Chu Malave, Lionel Pina.

Director Sidney Lumet; Producer Martin Bregman, Martin Elfand; Screenplay Frank Pierson; Associate Producer Robert Greenhut; Film Editor Dede Allen; Director of Photography Victor J. Kemper, ASC. An Artists Entertainment Complex Production, Warner Communications Company Presents; Technicolor; print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive and Warner Bros.; 35mm; 124 mins; 1975. 

Academy Award® Winner:  Writing (Original Screenplay)(Pierson).

Academy Award® Nominations: Actor (Pacino), Actor in a Supporting Role (Sarandon), Directing (Lumet), Film Editing (Allen), Best Picture (Bregman, Elfand).