Dog Day Afternoon
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Co-presented by The Wild Detectives
Three amateur robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice, simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Intro by Rachel Walther, author of Born to Lose: The Misfits Who Made Dog Day Afternoon. Books for sale in the lobby.
In Born to Lose: The Misfits Who Made Dog Day Afternoon, film historian Rachel Walther delves into the making of the New Hollywood classic as well as the film’s backstory, tracing how an unbelievable true crime tale of love, bank robbery, and LGBTQI+ activism became a box-office smash and catapulted a group of Brooklyn outsiders into the media spotlight.
Three amateur robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice, simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Intro by Rachel Walther, author of Born to Lose: The Misfits Who Made Dog Day Afternoon. Books for sale in the lobby.
In Born to Lose: The Misfits Who Made Dog Day Afternoon, film historian Rachel Walther delves into the making of the New Hollywood classic as well as the film’s backstory, tracing how an unbelievable true crime tale of love, bank robbery, and LGBTQI+ activism became a box-office smash and catapulted a group of Brooklyn outsiders into the media spotlight.
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