090328300128

1975

1975-12-25

125

2h 5min

Won 1 Oscar, 14 wins & 21 nominations total

Sidney Lumet

Frank Pierson, P.F. Kluge, Thomas Moore

Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen

Martin Bregman, Martin Elfand, Robert Greenhut

Victor J. Kemper

Dede Allen

Michael Chinich, Don Phillips

Charles Bailey

Douglas Higgins

Robert Drumheller

Anna Hill Johnstone

Philip Leto, Reginald Tackley, Max Henriquez

Burtt Harris, Alan Hopkins

Stanley Cappiello, Joseph M. Caracciolo, Carlos Quiles, Joe Williams Sr., Bill Gold

Richard P. Cirincione, Jack Fitzstephens, Sanford Rackow, Stephen A. Rotter, James Sabat, Dick Vorisek, Hal Levinsohn, Robert Rogow, Mel Zelniker

A.J. Bakunas, Tom O Connor

James Finnerty, Muky, Richard Quinlan, Fred Schuler, Jack Brown, Ron Zarilla

Clifford Capone, Peggy Farrell

Angelo Corrao

Martin Danzig

B.J. Bjorkman

Frank Aldrich, Clinton Allmon, Janet Coleman, Anthony Crupi, Cassandra Danz, Douglas Dean III, David Dozer, Lee Dupree, Allan Eisenman, Robert Fields, Lois Kramer Hartwick, Joe Seneca, Raymond Serra, Ben Slack

Biography, Crime, Drama

Warner Bros., Artists Entertainment Complex

USA

English

R

8

256184

86

Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 American biographical crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and produced by Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand. The film stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, James Broderick, and Charles Durning. The screenplay is written by Frank Pierson and is based on the Life magazine article The Boys in the Bank by P. F. Kluge and Thomas Moore. The feature chronicled the 1972 robbery and hostage situation led by John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile at a Chase Manhattan branch in Brooklyn.

Elfand brought Bregman s attention to the article, who proceeded to negotiate a deal with Warner Bros and clear the rights to use the story. Pierson conducted his research and wrote a script that centered the story of the robbery around Wojtowicz. The cast was selected by Lumet and Pacino, with the latter selecting past co-stars from his Off-Broadway plays. Filming took place between September and November 1974, and the production was finished three weeks ahead of schedule.

Upon theatrical release on September 21, 1975, Dog Day Afternoon was a critical and box office success. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards and seven Golden Globe Awards and won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2009, Dog Day Afternoon was deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant by the Library of Congress, and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

$1,800,000 (estimated)

$50,000,000

$50,000,000

Heist,shot in the forehead,hostage,robbery,hostage situation