A 1975 film by Sidney Lumet based on the true story of a bank robbery that becomes a media circus and hostage situation on a sweltering Brooklyn afternoon.
Demonstrated that the crime film could be a vehicle for social comedy and pathos simultaneously, and that the criminal could be the audience's representative against institutional indifference.
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