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...bopping Elton John soundtrack open Sidney Lumet's overexcited mongrel of a film about a bank robbery. A high-spirited, sporadically funny film about a trivial event, Dog Day Afternoon is at odds with itself. Its mixed parentage--one part action shoot-out, one part ethnic sit-com, and two parts documentary--makes it an entertaining enough mutt, but hard to control. It wanders in several directions at once and over-whelms its charming moments in tedious incoherence...
Inside the bank a stereotyped sit-com develops around Sonny, his stupid accomplice, ten giggly bank tellers, and the irate manager. Outside, the street scene becomes an urbanized Bonanza as fleets of cops swarm up the fire-escapes, helicopters circle overhead, FBI men flood to the scene, and reporters come puffing up with their cameramen. It's an official's dream: what police chief, FBI man, or reporter has ever had enough time to cover a bank robbery on the spot? Indeed, what film director...
...more, if you can believe it, she's still a good girl. Lynn Redgrave as Xaviera a is properly blonde, well-built and fun-loving, but Mary Tyler Moore would have been more in keeping with the director's intentions; the film is as close to a family sit-com as he could get without completely disguising the subject matter. Xaviera first becomes interested in hooking through a man who tells her. "The most satisfying work, and the most difficult, is when you work to make other people happy." And her eyes light up. She loves to make people happy...
...offers intimations of grand passions, great dreams and intense drama. Ever since she was a schoolgirl in the Paris suburb of Gennevilliers, people have wanted to make her a star. At 17 she was made one of the youngest members in France's oldest acting ensemble, the Comédie Française. In her first season, she played Agnes in The School for Wives. When Jean-Loup Dabadie, one of France's leading screenwriters (Cesar and Rosalie) saw her in 1973, he wrote a comedy of the generation gap, La Gifle (A Slap in the Face...
...girl, who came to the North to find a slightly better life; the malevolent hustler; the rising young black attorney. They are all charming characters, given to relaxed and easy banter that flows rapidly and naturally, but they all perch precariously on a tenuous line between reality and sit-com land...