Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 American crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, written by Frank Pierson, and produced by Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand. The film stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, Penelope Allen, James Broderick, Lance Henriksen, and Carol Kane. The title refers to the sultry "dog days" of summer.
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Directed by | Sidney Lumet |
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Screenplay by | Frank Pierson |
Based on | "The Boys in the Bank" by P. F. Kluge Thomas Moore |
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Cinematography | Victor J. Kemper |
Edited by | Dede Allen |
Production company | Artists Entertainment Complex |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date |
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Running time | 125 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1.8 million |
Box office | $50 million |
The film was inspired by P. F. Kluge's article "The Boys in the Bank" in LIFE magazine, about a similar robbery of a Brooklyn bank by John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturale on August 22, 1972.
The film received critical acclaim upon its September 1975 release by Warner Bros., some of which referred to its anti-establishment tone. Dog Day Afternoon was nominated for several Academy Awards and Golden Globe awards, and won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2009, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Screenplay
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On August 22, 1972, first-time crook Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino), his friend Salvatore "Sal" Naturale (John Cazale), and Stevie (Gary Springer) attempt to rob the First Brooklyn Savings Bank. The plan immediately goes awry when Stevie loses his nerve shortly after Sal pulls out his gun, and Sonny is forced to let him flee the scene. In the vault, Sonny discovers that he and Sal have arrived after the daily cash pickup, and only $1,100 in cash remains in the bank.
To compensate, Sonny takes some traveler's cheques. To prevent the cheques from being traced, he burns the bank's register in a trash can, but the smoke alerts the business across the street to suspicious activities. Within minutes, the building is surrounded by the police. Unsure of what to do, the two robbers camp out in the bank, holding all the workers hostage.
Police Detective Sergeant Eugene Moretti (Charles Durning) calls the bank to tell Sonny the police have arrived. Sonny warns that he and Sal have hostages and will kill them if anyone tries coming into the bank. Sal tells Sonny that he is ready to kill the hostages if necessary. A security guard has an asthma attack, so Sonny releases him when Moretti asks for a hostage as a sign of good faith. Moretti convinces Sonny to step outside. Using the head teller as a shield, Sonny begins a dialogue with Moretti that culminates in his shouting "Attica! Attica!" (invoking the recent Attica Prison riot), and the civilian crowd starts cheering for Sonny.
Sonny demands a vehicle to drive him and Sal to an airport where they can board a jet. He also demands pizzas for the hostages (which are delivered to the scene) and that his wife be brought to the bank. When Sonny's wife, Leon Shermer (Chris Sarandon), a pre-operative transgender woman, arrives, she reveals that a reason for robbing the bank is to pay for Leon's sex reassignment surgery, and that Sonny also has an estranged divorced wife, Angie (Susan Peretz), and children.
As night sets in, the lights in the bank all shut off. Sonny goes outside again and discovers that FBI Agent Sheldon (James Broderick) has taken command of the scene. He refuses to give Sonny any more favors, but when the bank manager, Mulvaney (Sully Boyar), goes into a diabetic shock, Agent Sheldon lets a doctor (Philip Charles MacKenzie) through. While the doctor is inside the bank, Sheldon convinces Leon to talk to Sonny on the phone. Leon reveals that she had attempted suicide to get away from Sonny and his abusive behavior. She had been hospitalized at the psychiatric ward of Bellevue Hospital until the police brought her to the scene. Leon turns down Sonny's offer to join him and Sal wherever they take the plane. Sonny tells police that Leon had nothing to do with the robbery attempt.
Sonny agrees to let Mulvaney leave, but Mulvaney refuses, insisting on remaining with his employees. The FBI calls Sonny out of the bank again to talk to his mother. She unsuccessfully tries to persuade him to give himself up. Once back inside the bank, Sonny writes out his will, leaving money from his life insurance to Leon for her sex change and to Angie.
When the limousine arrives, Sonny checks it for any hidden weapons or booby traps. When he decides the car is satisfactory, he settles on Agent Murphy (Lance Henriksen) to drive Sonny, Sal, and the remaining hostages to Kennedy Airport. Sonny sits in the front next to Murphy while Sal sits behind them. Murphy repeatedly asks Sal to point his gun at the roof so Sal won't accidentally shoot him.
As they wait on the airport tarmac for the plane to taxi into position, another hostage is released and gives Sal her rosary beads to help him through his first plane journey. Murphy again reminds Sal to aim his gun up so he does not fire by accident. Sal does so, and Agent Sheldon forces Sonny's weapon onto the dashboard, creating a distraction which allows Murphy to pull a revolver hidden in his armrest and shoot Sal in the head. Sonny is immediately arrested, and the hostages freed.
The film ends with Sonny watching Sal's body being taken from the car on a stretcher. Subtitles reveal that Sonny was sentenced to 20 years in prison, Angie and her children subsisted on welfare, and Leon had her sex reassignment surgery.
The LIFE article described Wojtowicz as "a dark, thin fellow with the broken-faced good looks of an Al Pacino or Dustin Hoffman". Hoffman was later offered the role when Pacino briefly quit the production. An 18-year-old actor was originally to be cast in the role of Sal to match the age of the actual Salvatore. The table below summarizes the main cast of Dog Day Afternoon.
Character | Actor | Role | Similar person from Life article |
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Sonny Wortzik | Al Pacino | Bank robber | John Wojtowicz |
Salvatore "Sal" Naturale | John Cazale | Sonny's partner in the robbery | Salvatore "Sal" Naturale |
Sergeant Eugene Moretti | Charles Durning | Police Sergeant who originally negotiates with Sonny | NYPD Police Chief of Detectives Louis C. Cottell |
Agent Sheldon | James Broderick | FBI agent who replaces Moretti in negotiations | Agent Richard Baker |
Agent Murphy | Lance Henriksen | FBI agent/driver | Agent Murphy |
Leon Shermer | Chris Sarandon | Sonny's pre-operative transgender wife | Elizabeth Eden |
Sylvia "Mouth" | Penelope Allen | Head teller | Shirley "Mouth" Ball |
Mulvaney | Sully Boyar | Bank manager | Robert Barrett |
Angela "Angie" Wortzik | Susan Peretz | Sonny's wife | Carmen "Mouth" Bifulco |
Jenny "The Squirrel" | Carol Kane | Bank teller | |
Margaret | Beulah Garrick | Bank teller | |
Deborah | Sandra Kazan | Bank teller | |
Edna | Estelle Omens | Bank teller | Josephine Tuttino |
Miriam | Marcia Jean Kurtz | Bank teller | |
Maria | Amy Levitt | Bank teller | Kathleen Amore |
Stevie | Gary Springer | Bank robber | Robert Westenberg |
Howard Calvin | John Marriott | Unarmed bank guard | Calvin Jones |
Doctor | Philip Charles MacKenzie | Doctor who treats Mulvaney | Doctor |
Carmine | Carmine Foresta | ||
Phone cop | Floyd Levine | ||
Limo driver | Dick Anthony Williams | ||
Sonny's father | Dominic Chianese | ||
Neighbor | Marcia Haufrecht | ||
Sonny's mother | Judith Malina | Theresa Basso-Wojtowicz | |
TV anchorman | William Bogert | ||
TV reporter | Ron Cummins | ||
Sam | Jay Gerber | Insurance salesman from across the street | Joe Anterio |
Maria's boyfriend | Edwin "Chu Chu" Malave | ||
Pizza boy | Lionel Pina |
The film is based on the story of John Wojtowicz and adheres to the basic facts of what happened, according to the LIFE article "The Boys in the Bank" in the September 22 edition. Wojtowicz, along with Sal Naturale, held up a Chase Manhattan Bank branch in Gravesend, Brooklyn, on August 22, 1972.
After being apprehended, Wojtowicz was convicted in court and sentenced to twenty years in prison, of which he served six.
Wojtowicz wrote a letter to The New York Times in 1975 out of concern that people would believe the version of the events portrayed in the film, which he said was "only 30% true." Some of Wojtowicz's objections included the portrayal of his wife Carmen Bifulco, the conversation with his mother that Wojtowicz claimed never happened, and the refusal of police to let him speak to his wife Carmen (unlike what was portrayed in the film). He did, however, praise Al Pacino and Chris Sarandon's portrayals of him and his wife Elizabeth Eden as accurate. Also, although Sal was 18 years old, he is portrayed in the film by then 39-year-old John Cazale.
The film shows Sonny making out a will to give Leon his life insurance so that if Sonny should be killed, Leon might still be able to pay for the operation. The real-life Wojtowicz was paid $7,500 ($37,200 today) plus 1% of the film's net profit for the rights to his story, from which he gave to Eden enough to pay for her sexual reassignment surgery. She died of complications from AIDS in Genesee Hospital, in Rochester, New York, in 1987. Wojtowicz died of cancer in January 2006.
The robbery took place at the Chase Manhattan Bank branch at 450 Avenue P in Brooklyn, on the cross street of East 3rd Street, in Gravesend. (40°36?32?N 73°58?15?W? / ?40.6089°N 73.9707°W)
The original inspiration for the film was an article written by P. F. Kluge and Thomas Moore for LIFE in September 1972. The article included many of the details later used in the film and noted the relationship which Wojtowicz and Naturale developed with hostages and the police. Bank manager Robert Barrett said, "I'm supposed to hate you guys , but I've had more laughs tonigh
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