Kennedy Airport, Queens, is the setting of Dog Day Afternoon's climax scene, where the criminals hope to flee by aircraft. The production was able to film the dramatic last moments of the movie on ...

The real story behind the movie Dog Day Afternoon is just as interesting and full of twists as the film itself. Is Dog Day Afternoon based on a true story? Yes, the film, directed by Sidney Lumet ...

Al Pacino plays real-life bank robber Sonny Wortzik in "Dog Day Afternoon." (Warner Brothers/ZUMA Press) But the movie is also full, wonderfully full, of patient, easeful, observational passages ...

I started the movie and I didn’t think I was in a ... Al Pacino recalls making ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ after a 50th anniversary screening at the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre Chris ...

Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation ...

But other milestone movies and events happened that year, from the record-breaking “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” to the seminal “Dog Day Afternoon,” to the cult classic “The Rocky ...

Comparisons can lead to non-objective, even malignant thoughts, yet while watching the new movie “Breaking” I couldn’t help but think of “Dog Day Afternoon.” That classic from the 1970s is such a ...

Aron eventually became Elizabeth D. Eden, thanks in part to money from selling rights to his story to “Dog Day Afternoon,” which became one of the movies that defined New York in the 1970s ...