Dog Day Afternoon
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Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
- Release Date
- December 25, 1975
- Director
- Sidney Lumet
- Writers
- Frank Pierson , P.F. Kluge , Thomas Moore
- Cast
- Al Pacino , John Cazale , Penelope Allen , Carol Kane
- Runtime
- 125 minutes
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