A Dog Day Afternoon

Written by: Rosie Angell-James on August 10, 2022

Dog Day Afternoon, one of the great films of the 70s, starring the wonderful Pacino and Cazale playing Sonny and Sal, a pair of dysfunctional ne’er-do-wells who botch a bank robbery on a hot summer’s afternoon in Brooklyn. A true story. And interestingly, for the times, they plan the robbery to fund a gender re-assignment for Sonny’s boyfriend Leon – they (preferred pronoun) were clearly ahead of their (ditto) time…