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Dog Day Afternoon at IMDb; Dog Day Afternoon at the TCM Movie Database "The Boys in the Bank", by P.F. Kluge and Thomas Moore at Google Books; Dog Day Afternoon essay by Daniel Eagan In America's Film Legacy, 2009–2010: A Viewer's Guide To The 50 Landmark Movies Added To The National Film Registry In 2009–10, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2011 ...
When the strange and sweaty little bank robber Sonny cries “Attica! Attica!” both to troll the police and to rally a Brooklyn crowd around him, it reverses the polarity of Dog Day Afternoon ...
The film Dog Day Afternoon shows Sonny (the Wojtowicz character) making out a will to give Leon (Eden's character) his life insurance so that even if he were killed, "Leon" could pay for the operation. The real-life Wojtowicz was paid $7500, plus 1% of the film's net profits, for the rights to his story, from which he gave Eden enough money to ...
Wojtowicz's story was used as the basis for the film Dog Day Afternoon (released in 1975), starring Al Pacino as Wojtowicz (called "Sonny Wortzik" in the film) and John Cazale, one of Pacino's co-stars in The Godfather, as Naturile. Elizabeth Eden, known as "Leon" in the film, was portrayed by actor Chris Sarandon. [14]
Victor J. Kemper, the cinematographer behind “Dog Day Afternoon,” “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure,” “National Lampoon’s Vacation” and other notable films, has died. He was 96. American ...
“Dog Day Afternoon,” the classic 1975 crime drama starring Al Pacino, takes place on an excruciatingly hot day in late August (although it’s set on August 22, 11 days after the “dog days ...
Salvatore Antonio "Sal" Naturile, [1] also known as Donald Matterson [2] (June 26, 1953– August 23, 1972) was an American bank robber whose attempted robbery of a Chase Manhattan bank branch in Brooklyn, along with John Wojtowicz, in August 1972, inspired the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon. In the film he is portrayed by actor John Cazale.
Of the 43 men who died (33 inmates and 10 correctional officers and employees), all but one guard and three inmates were killed by law enforcement gunfire when the state retook control of the prison on the final day of the uprising. [1] [2] [3] The Attica Uprising has been described as a historic event in the prisoners' rights movement. [4] [5]