Dog Day Afternoon (Special Edition)

Movie Description

The Robbery Should Have Taken Ten Minutes. Eight Hours Later, It Was The Hottest Thing On Live TV. And It's All True.

On a hot Brooklyn afternoon, two optimistic nobodies set out to rob a bank. Sonny (Al Pacino) is the mastermind, Sal (John Cazale) is the follower and disaster is the result. Because the cops, crowds, TV cameras and even the pizza man have arrived. Pacino and director Sidney Lumet (collaborators on Serpico) reteam for this boisterous comedy thriller that earned six Academy Award® nominations (including Best Picture) and won an Oscar® for Frank Pierson's streetwise screenplay. Based on a true incident, Dog Day Afternoon "is one of the big ones, swarming with energy, excitement and drama." (Gene Shalit, Today/NBC-TV).

Director

Sidney Lumet

Cast

Penelope Allen (Sylvia)
Sully Boyar (Mulvaney)
John Cazale (Sal)
Beulah Garrick (Margaret)
Carol Kane (Jenny)
Sandra Kazan (Deborah)
Marcia Jean Kurtz (Miriam)
Amy Levitt (Maria)
John Marriott (Howard)
Estelle Omens (Edna)
Al Pacino (Sonny)
Gary Springer (Stevie)
James Broderick (Sheldon)
Charles Durning (Det. Sgt. Eugene Moretti)
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 (Angela "Angie" Wortzik)
Chris Sarandon (Leon Shermer)
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)
James Bulleit (Sgt. Gillis (uncredited))
Robert Costanzo (New York Policeman (uncredited))
Todd Everett (Cop (uncredited))
Paul E. Guskin (Police Sergeant (uncredited))
Thomas Murphy (Policeman with Angie (uncredited))
Raymond Serra (New York Plainclothes Cop (uncredited))
Lynette Sheldon (Sadie (uncredited))
Tom Towles (Gunman (uncredited))