Synopsis
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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Cast
- Al PacinoSonny Wortzik
- John CazaleSalvatore 'Sal' Naturile
- Charles DurningDet. Sgt. Eugene Moretti
- Chris SarandonLeon Shermer
- James BroderickAgent Sheldon
- William BogertTV Anchorman
- Penelope AllenSylvia 'Mouth'
- Sully BoyarMulvaney
- Beulah GarrickMargaret
- Carol KaneJenny 'The Squirrel'
Recommandations
- 100
Empire
Pacino simmers in this daring and brilliantly constructed treatise on the many facets of a crime. - 100
The A.V. Club
Dog Day Afternoon is a frank social melodrama that’s also a celebration of quotidian bravery. The camera might linger on guns and barely restrained violence, but it also dwells upon the love and the support that’s extended in the weirdest and most unexpected of places. - 100
The Telegraph
A masterly reconstruction of a Brooklyn bank siege on August 22, 1972, built around arguably Al Pacino's finest screen performance. - 100
Variety
The entire cast is excellent, top to bottom. Dog Day Afternoon is, in the whole as well as the parts, film-making at its best. - 100
San Francisco Chronicle
The film's tone is extraordinarily flexible, holding within the same reality elements of the absurd, the ridiculous and the comic while sustaining a sense of tension and dread throughout. This is, of course, one of the classic Pacino roles - he's so appealing - but don't overlook the late John Cazale as his accomplice, who gives us a character who's stupid and scared, troubled and dangerous, and disturbingly inscrutable. - 100
TV Guide Magazine
Dog Day Afternoon benefits immeasurably from a cast and crew doing some of the finest work of their careers. One of the finest films of the 1970s. - 90
The New York Times
Dog Day Afternoon is a melodrama, based on fact, about a disastrously illplanned Brooklyn bank robbery, and it's beautifully acted by performers who appear to have grown up on the city's sidewalks in the heat and hopelessness of an endless midsummer. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
Lumet is exploring the clichés, not just using them. And he has a good feel for the big-city crowd that's quickly drawn to the action.
