Cruising

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Title: Cruising

Tagline: Al Pacino is Cruising for a killer.

Genre: Crime,Mystery,Thriller

Director: William Friedkin

Cast: Al Pacino,Paul Sorvino,Karen Allen,Richard Cox,Don Scardino,Joe Spinell,Jay Acovone,Gene Davis,Randy Jurgensen,Barton Heyman,Arnaldo Santana,Larry Atlas,Sonny Grosso,Ed O'Neill,Michael Aronin,James Remar,William Russ,Mike Starr,Steve Inwood,Keith Prentice,Leland Starnes,Robert Pope,Leo Burmester,Bruce Levine,Charles Dunlap,Powers Boothe,James Sutorius,Richard Jamieson,Jimmie Ray Weeks,David Winnie Hayes,Carmine Stipo,James Hayden,Todd Winters,Kirsten Baker,Henry Judd Baker,Bob Duggan,Burr DeBenning,Allan Miller

Status: Released

Release: 1980-02-15

Runtime: 102

Plot: When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, young rookie Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.

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Trailer Cast Crew Videos

    • Al Pacino

      Steve Burns

    • Paul Sorvino

      Capt. Edelson

    • Karen Allen

      Nancy Gates

    • Richard Cox

      Stuart Richards

    • Don Scardino

      Ted Bailey

    • Joe Spinell

      Patrolman DiSimone

    • Jay Acovone

      Skip Lee

    • Gene Davis

      DaVinci

    • Randy Jurgensen

      Det. Lefransky

    • Barton Heyman

      Dr. Rifkin

    • Arnaldo Santana

      Loren Lukas

    • Larry Atlas

      Eric Rossman

    • Sonny Grosso

      Det. Blasio

    • Ed O'Neill

      Det. Schreiber

    • Michael Aronin

      Det. Davis

    • James Remar

      Gregory

    • William Russ

      Paul Gaines

    • Mike Starr

      Patrolman Desher

    • Steve Inwood

      Martino

    • Keith Prentice

      Joey

    • Leland Starnes

      Jack Richards

    • Robert Pope

      DaVinci's Friend

    • Leo Burmester

      Water Sport

    • Bruce Levine

      Dancer

    • Charles Dunlap

      Three Card Monte

    • Powers Boothe

      Hankie Salesman

    • James Sutorius

      Jack (voice)

    • Richard Jamieson

      Spotter

    • Jimmie Ray Weeks

      Seller

    • David Winnie Hayes

      Bouncer
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    • Richard C. Franklin (Sound)

      Assistant Sound Editor

    • Robert E. Warren (Directing)

      Second Assistant Director

    • Bob Grimaldi (Costume & Make-Up)

      Hairstylist

    • Alan Hopkins (Directing)

      First Assistant Director

    • Dean Jackson (Costume & Make-Up)

      Wardrobe Supervisor

    • Chris Jenkins (Sound)

      Sound Re-Recording Mixer

    • Mark Johnson (Production)

      Production Executive

    • Louis L. Edemann (Sound)

      Sound Editor

    • Robert De Mora (Costume & Make-Up)

      Costume Design

    • Aaron Levy (Sound)

      Sound Designer

    • Randy Jurgensen (Crew)

      Technical Advisor

    • William Friedkin (Writing)

      Writer

    • Robert Knudson (Sound)

      Sound Re-Recording Mixer

    • Allen Weisinger (Costume & Make-Up)

      Makeup Artist

    • Jerry Weintraub (Production)

      Producer

    • Bud S. Smith (Editing)

      Editor

    • Michael Dennison (Costume & Make-Up)

      Wardrobe Supervisor

    • Sonny Grosso (Crew)

      Technical Advisor

    • Edward Pisoni (Art)

      Art Direction

    • Sidney Gecker (Directing)

      Script Supervisor

    • Jack Nitzsche (Sound)

      Original Music Composer

    • Bruce Richardson (Sound)

      Sound Editor

    • James A. Contner (Camera)

      Director of Photography

    • Bruce Weintraub (Art)

      Production Design

    • Louis DiGiaimo (Production)

      Casting

    • Robert Glass (Sound)

      Sound Re-Recording Mixer

    • Robert Norin (Costume & Make-Up)

      Makeup Artist

    • Burtt Harris (Production)

      Production Manager

    • Robert Drumheller (Art)

      Set Decoration

    • Hank Muller (Camera)

      Assistant Camera
    More…

    • Cruising Trailer

      • Trailer

    • The Arrow Video Story

      • Featurette
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Cruising

Cruising is a 1980 movie directed by William Friedkin and starring Al Pacino, based on a 1970 novel by Gerald Walker. Al Pacino plays Steve Burns, a young cop who goes undercover in New York's leather/BDSM subcommunity to catch a serial killer.
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Cruising is a 1980 movie directed by William Friedkin and starring Al Pacino, based on a 1970 novel by Gerald Walker.

Al Pacino plays Steve Burns, a young cop who goes undercover in New York's leather/BDSM subcommunity to catch a serial killer. The film drew protests from many sides but notably the mainstream gay community. Many gays protested the film and they did their best to disrupt filming.

One of the most notorious aspects of the film is the fact that a full 40 minutes of footage, depicting explicit sexual activity in a leather club — filmed in a real venue, the Mineshaft in the West Village, and featuring many of that venue's real-life patrons — was cut from the film before its release, in the hopes of avoiding an X rating, and has never been publicly shown.

To this day, Cruising remains one of the most widely analyzed and debated milestones in the history of LGBT depictions in film; critics and filmmakers still argue about whether the film constitutes homophobic propaganda or simply a neutral, documentary-like depiction of a genuine reality (or both.)
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As controversial as this film was at its' release, Cruising has become a big cult classic on par with John Carpenter's The Thing (1982).
 
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VashTheStampede said:
Been a long time since I've seen this one. I remember overall enjoying it, but I have a bad feeling that 2024 Vash will have a lot of problems with it. Gonna have to revisit it soon.
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While its' not on the level of The French Connection, The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A. this was actually one of Friedkin's better works and I said earlier nowadays its' a cult classic, that, despite the controversies, has survived the test of time.
 
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