'Dog Day Afternoon': Casting the Controversy

[first lines]

Sidney Lumet:
We had a very good working experience on 'Serpico', Al and Marty and I.

[last lines]

Chris Sarandon:
It's one of the great experiences I've ever had in film. It was my first movie, and I thought: Oh, they're all gonna be like this. Unfortunately, they're not but I do have this to remember, it was quite an extraordinary, extraordinary event.