starring Al Pacino , John Cazale
On a torrid day in August 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 ringleader who staged the hold-up to finance a sex change operation for his male lover.
Screenplay by FRANK PIERSON
Producers MARTIN BREGMAN , MARTIN ELFAND Directed by SIDNEY LUMET. Films: page 9 (First showing on British television)