Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The following year, Pacino and Cazale were reunited in Dog Day Afternoon, this time as partners in crime instead of brothers. Pacino also reunited with Serpico director Sidney Lumet for this biographical crime drama based on the true story of the 1972 bank-robbery-turned-hostage-situation at a Chase Manhattan Bank in Brooklyn carried out by John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile.
Pacino plays the brains of the operation, Sonny Wortzik opposite Cazale as his bumbling sidekick Sal.
Pacino’s intense stare is on display here as his character bungles a bank robbery but also becomes a working class hero. Because the air conditioning would have been shut off in the bank during the hostage situation, Pacino gets progressively sweatier and more risk-seeking as the film goes on.
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