- starring
Al Pacino
John Cazale
On a torrid August day in 1972, three gunmen burst into a Brooklyn bank intent on a quick and easy robbery. But the heist goes wrong and the robbers are besieged in the bank with the employees as hostages. In this gripping, funny, sometimes grotesque true story, Al Pacino gives one of his best performances as the ring-leader who staged the hold-up in order to finance a sex change operation for his male lover.
Screenplay by FRANK PIERSON Produced by MARTIN BREGMAN and MARTIN ELFAND
Directed by SIDNEY LUMET
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