Dog Day Afternoon [40th Anniversary] [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray] [2 Discs]

Overview

In this film, based on a true story, Sonny bursts into a crowded Brooklyn bank, gun in hand. His carefully planned robbery scheme will ostensibly finance a sex-change operation for his transvestite lover, but this and every other aspect of the crime goes horribly awry.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/21/2015
UPC:	0883929445998
Original Release:	1975
Rating:	R
Source:	Warner Home Video
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Surround, Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	2:04:00

Special Features

Blu-ray; Commentary by Director Sidney Lumet; Four-Part Making-Of Documentary; Lumet: Film Maker; DVD; Commentary by Director Richard Shepard; Extended Interviews with Al Pacino and Israel Horovitz; Two Short Films: The American Way (1962) and The Box (1969)

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Al Pacino	Sonny
John Cazale	Sal
Charles Durning	Moretti
James Broderick	Sheldon
Chris Sarandon	Leon
Penny Allen	Sylvia,Sylvia
Sully Boyar	Mulvaney
Carol Kane	Jenny
Lance Henriksen	Murphy
Susan Peretz	Angie Wortzik
Beulah Garrick	Margaret
Sandra Kazan	Deborah
Marcia Jean Kurtz	Miriam
Amy Levitt	Maria
John Marriott	Howard
Estelle Omens	Edna
Gary Springer	Bobby
Judith Malina	Vi
Dominic Chianese	Vi's Husband
Marcia Haufrecht	Vi's Friend
Floyd Levine	Phone Cop
Carmine Foresta	Carmine
Thomas Murphy	Policeman with Angie
William Bogert	TV Studio Anchorman
Ron Cummins	TV Reporter
Jay Gerber	Sam
Philip Charles MacKenzie	Doctor
Chu Chu Malave	Maria's Boy Friend
Lionel Pina	Pizza Boy
Dick Anthony Williams	Limo Driver
Frank Piazza	Actor
James Bulleit	Sgt. Gillis
Robert Costanzo	New York Policeman
Todd Everett	Cop
Ron Gilbert	Detective
Paul E. Guskin	Police Sergeant
Ed Metzger	Sgt. Murray - NYPD
Raymond Serra	New York Plainclothes Cop
Lynette Sheldon	Sadie
Tom Towles	Gunman
Muir Mathieson	Composer

Technical Credits

Frank R. Pierson

Thomas Moore

Leslie Waller

Sidney Lumet	Director
Martin Bregman	Producer
Martin Elfand	Producer
Frank R. Pierson	Screenwriter
Thomas Moore	Screenwriter
Leslie Waller	Screenwriter
A.J. Bakunas	Stunts
Richard P. Cirincione	Sound Effects
Jack Fitzstephens	Sound Effects
Sanford Rackow	Sound Effects
Stephen A. Rotter	Sound Effects
James Sabat	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Don Phillips	Casting
Michael Chinich	Casting
Richard Vorisek	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Shooting on location in New York, Sidney Lumet and Oscar-winning writer Frank Pierson maintain an objective view of a potentially exploitative story, grasping both the human comedy of an absurd situation and the utter seriousness of what's at stake. Sonny and Sal are not so much stereotypical figures of ridicule as they are lost souls at the mercy of forces beyond their control and comprehension. Yet they are not romanticized; neither cops nor robbers come off well. Dog Day Afternoon found a large 1975 audience for its oddball yet timely story, with all of the lead actors, especially Al Pacino, winning kudos for their bravura performances. Tapping into contemporary tensions over law, media, and sexuality, with Pacino's confused antihero at the center of the melee, Dog Day Afternoon is a quintessential 1970s story, devoid of unequivocal good guys and replete with public and private turmoil.