Dog Day Afternoon,
directed by Sidney Lumet,
written by Frank Pierson,
based
on the article The Boys in the Bank by P. F. Kluge and Thomas Moore,
published in the September 1972 edition of Life magazine,
was released
in the United States on September 21, 1975.
Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar, Susan Peretz, James Broderick, Lance Henriksen, Carol Kane, Beulah Garrick, Sandra Kazan, Estelle Omens, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Amy Levitt, Gary Springer, John Marriott, Philip Charles MacKenzie, Dick Anthony Williams, Judith Malina, Dominic Chianese, Edwin "Chu Chu" Malave, Lionel Pina.