Featured Video: The Real Dog Day Afternoon (1972)

A 1972 news report about the brazen, offbeat bank robbery in Brooklyn that inspired Dog Day Afternoon. One robber, John Wojtowicz, paces nervously outside the bank as Al Pacino later did in the 1975 film, but the wiry criminal never once shouts “Attica!” That famous holler wasn’t in the script either; it was suggested to Pacino between takes, and he thankfully went for it. Wojtowicz, who committed the robbery to try to raise cash for his lover’s sexual reassignment surgery, didn’t get along too well with movie people.

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