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Revisiting the Brooklyn bank robbery that inspired Dog Day Afternoon

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The Dog tells the sad story of a man trapped by his criminal past. by J.R. Jones"Were you Al Pacino in the movie?" a man on the street asks John Wojtowicz, whose botched robbery of a Brooklyn bank in August 1972 was dramatized in Dog Day Afternoon. "I'm the bank robber—fuck Al Pacino!" replies Wojtowicz.…

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