Picks and Pans Review: Dog Day Afternoon

UPDATED 11/12/1979 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 11/12/1979 at 01:00 AM EST

NBC (9-11:30 p.m. ET)

Al Pacino holds up a bank to raise money for a sex-change operation for his lover in this engrossing 1975 movie. The real-life robber, John Wojtowicz. was paroled last year after serving 6½ years. His lover now lives as a woman—but not with him.

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