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Cruising is a 1980 crime thriller film written and directed by William Friedkin, and starring Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino and Karen Allen. It is loosely based on the novel of the same name by The New York Times reporter Gerald Walker about a serial killer targeting gay men, particularly those men associated with the leather scene in the late 1970s.
Summaries. A police officer goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men. A serial killer brutally slays gay men in New York's S&M bars. The young police officer, Steve Burns, goes undercover to find the murderer.
Cruising: Directed by William Friedkin. With Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox. A police officer goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men.
- William Friedkin
- 2 min
“Cruising” is, of course, a film with a controversial history. It’s about a series of violent New York murders in which the victims all frequent clandestine Manhattan nightclubs in which gay men gather to dance, drink and make pairings while enveloped in an S&M atmosphere of leather, boots, whips and chains.
A psychopath is scouring New York City gay clubs and viciously slaying homosexuals. Detective Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is ordered to don leather attire, hang at the city's S&M joints and keep an ...
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- William Friedkin
- R
- Al Pacino
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Cruising is a 1980 crime thriller film written and directed by William Friedkin, and starring Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino and Karen Allen. It is loosely based on the novel of the same name by The New York Times reporter Gerald Walker about a serial killer targeting gay men, particularly those men associated with the leather scene in the late 1970s.