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Dog Day Afternoon (1975) ORIGINAL TRAILER

Dog Day Afternoon(1975)
Released
1975 · FILM

Dog Day Afternoon

First‑time crook Sonny Wortzik storms a Brooklyn bank with two friends, only to find the vault empty and a tense hostage standoff erupting as police negotiate, forcing him to decide whether to become a legend or a dead man.

“Anything can happen during the dog days of summer. On August 22nd, 1972, everything did.”

Directed by
Sidney Lumet
Written by
P F Kluge, Frank Pierson
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
125 min
BiographyCrimeDrama
Streaming on
  • Hoopla

Synopsis

Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile, the film follows Sonny and Sal as they attempt a bank heist that quickly goes wrong, turning into a hostage situation and standoff with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are gradually revealed and the situation becomes more complicated, the event transforms into a media circus.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 50+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Dede AllenShot by Victor J KemperDesigned by Charles Bailey

Box Office

1975 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 31× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$56.7M

Budget$1.8M
Worldwide gross$56.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Hundstagede
  • Tarde de perroses
  • Un après-midi de chienfr
  • Quel pomeriggio di un giorno da caniit

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