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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In Sidney Lumet's terse 1975 classic "Dog Day Afternoon," based on the 1972 Life Magazine biography "The Boys in the Bank" by P.F. Kluge, Al ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach will star in a stage adaptation of the acclaimed 1975 film about a bank heist that goes tragically awry. By ...

Dog Day Afternoon starts off as a dark comedy centered around its bumbling, amateur robbers. As soon as the guns are brought out, one of the robbers chickens out and runs out of the bank. It is then ...

“Who ever heard of bank robbers escaping on a plane with fifty hostages? You’ve seen ‘Dog Day Afternoon!’” -Denzel Washington in “Inside Man.” Sidney Lumet’s Oscar-winning New York City heist movie is ...