“Dog Day Afternoon” is turning 50. And it’s “Dog Day Afternoon,” the 1975 Sidney Lumet picture about an attempted Brooklyn, New York, bank robbery and the relatively brief hostage ...

The real-life character upon whom Leon is based did, in fact, get the operation. On a hot summer afternoon, Sonny and two cohorts, Stevie and Sal, go to rob the (fictional) First Savings Bank of ...