Mar 30th
Dog Day Afternoon**
(US 1975)
Warner Bros/Artists Entertainment Complex. 125m.

In August 1972, a bungled bank robbery in Brooklyn is even more incompetently handled by the police, and the resultant siege becomes a TV event.
Farcical enough to be a comedy but actually a semi-documentary adaptation of a real event in Lumet's sharpest observational dramatic style, if only slightly imbalanced by its two stars from The Godfather who don't look the sort that would mess up a bank robbery.

Written by: Frank Pierson, from an article by P.F. Kluge, Thomas Moore.
Producers: Martin Bregman, Martin Elfland.
Director: Sidney Lumet.
Starring: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, James Broderick, Chris Sarandon, Carol Kane, Lance Henriksen, Susan Peretz.
Photography: Victor J. Kemper.
Music: Elton John (source music).