Dog Day Afternoon: The Truth Behind the Film
Sidney Lumet’s 1975 bank robbery drama was an instant success, but it wouldn’t exist without the stranger-than-fiction failed heist of 1972 memorialized in the Life magazine story,The Boys in the Bank. If ever a movie was destined to be a critical and box office hit, it wasDog Day Afternoon. It reunitedSidney LumetwithAl Pacino, whom he had directedjust two years earlier inSerpico, and co-starred John Cazale as Pacino’s partner-in-crime. Frequent Pacino collaborator Martin Bregman co-produced the film with Martin Elfman, andthey brought the Life magazine articleby P....