In Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Sonny’s bank is located in Brooklyn.
The film dramatizes a 1972 robbery at a Chase Manhattan bank branch in Gravesend, a Brooklyn neighborhood. Sonny Wortzik arrives intending to rob the bank with Sal, but the plan quickly becomes a hostage crisis.
Al Pacino plays Sonny, while John Cazale plays Sal. The story was inspired by a Life magazine article about the real robbery carried out by John Wojtowitz and Salvatore Naturile.
Dog Day Afternoon was directed by Sidney Lumet and released in 1975. Although the film uses fictionalized names and details, its Brooklyn setting and the robbery’s media spectacle are central to its documentary-like atmosphere.