Dog Day Afternoon

Published: Aug. 18, 2020, 8 p.m.

Dog Day Afternoon is a great film starring Al Pacino. However the film is based on a real life bank robbery that took place in Brooklyn. On one hot August Day in 1972 John Wojtowicz and accomplices entered a Chase Bank in Gravesend Brooklyn. What ensued would be one of the craziest bank robbery stories to ever happen in New York City history. The events that transpired would be the inspiration for an academy award winning film. In this episode we discuss the real Dog Day Afternoon Robbery