CRUISING

Directed by: William Friedkin

Actors: Al Pacino , Karen Allen, Paul Sorvino, Don Scardino, Joe Spinell, Jay Acovone, Barton Heyman, Richard Cox, Gene Davis, Randy Jurgensen, Sonny Grosso.

, Karen Allen, Paul Sorvino, Don Scardino, Joe Spinell, Jay Acovone, Barton Heyman, Richard Cox, Gene Davis, Randy Jurgensen, Sonny Grosso. Original Title: Cruising

Type: Dramatic

Year: 1980

Length: 106 minuti circa

Country: USA

Crusing is the most famous among the gay leather and fetish movies..

Cruising is a 1980 American crime thriller film written and directed by William Friedkin and starring Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino and Karen Allen.

The film is a free version of the homonymous Novel, by The New York Times reporter Gerald Walker, and it's about a serial killer targeting gay men, in particular those associated with the leather scene.

The title is a pun with a double meaning since "cruising" can describe both police officers on patrol and looking for sex.

Cruising is the fictional account of a series of gruesome killings in modern-day New York City.

Steve Burns, a "hip" good looking officer, is recruited by Captain Edelson of the NYPD Homicide Unit to search "undercovered" for the serial killer.

The victims are all homosexual men known to be part of the "Leather" and BDSM scene in NY city so Burns, in "deep cover", must pretend to be a gay member of the leather community in order to attract the killer.

He fits the victims' profiles: dark hair, dark complexion, dark eyes.

Cruising tells the story of his adventures and misadventures in this small subculture of gay society.