Dog Day Afternoon
Sonny is based on a true-life situation that occurred in August 1972. A Chase Manhattan Bank branch was under siege in Gravesend in Brooklyn. He was a Vietnam vet who became a bank robber and wanted to take enough money (about $2500). Leon, a man, reported that Leon was married to Leon in a Catholic church. Leon later told police that Sal was “married with children” to be able to have sex surgery. Leon, the real-life character on which Leon was based, did in fact get the operation. Sonny, Sal and his two companions, Stevie, and Stevie, set out to rob Brooklyn’s First Savings Bank of Brooklyn on a scorching summer day. Stevie quickly becomes nervous and runs away. Sonny discovers that there’s not much money to be stolen, despite the agreement of both the female bank managers and the female tellers not to intervene in the robbery. Sonny receives an unexpected call from Captain Moretti, the NYPD. He informs Sonny that the entire city police force is protecting the area. Sonny is left with no other options and bargains nervously with Moretti for safe transport to the airport, as well as a flight out of the country, in exchange for safety of his bank workers. Updated by R.M. Sieger)
Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: Al Pacino, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, James Broderick, John Cazale, Penelope Allen, William Bogert
Country: United States
