Cruising (film)

Cruising is a 1980thriller film. The film was directed by William Friedkin. Starring Al Pacino, Karen Allen and Paul Sorvino. Cruising is based on the novel of the same name by Gerard Walker. ==Story[ Edit] == Throughout New York diving there seem or body parts of corpses on. There is a serial killer at work, but the police doesn't have a clue who it is. All the victims do have similarities. They always have black hair, dark eyes and ties with the gay environment.

Steve Burns gets to the police by Captain Edelson the command to go undercover. As Steve brings to a good end, he is promoted to detective. Steve tells his girlfriend Nancy that he must go undercover, but not that he should go to the gay killer. Then he uses "John Forbes" professional name and are looking for a room near the nightclubs where gay people stay. All the victims of the serial killer do Additionally also to S & M, making Steve often see things that he'd rather not see.

The research is not easy and meanwhile keep there seem to be popping up. Steve gets more and more problems with his life as an undercover agent. He becomes influenced by the world he sees and seems itself to get feelings for his neighbor Ted. One day he asks to Edelson to stop but that convinces him to persevere. When he runs through the research in connection with some pictures later, Steve recognizes a man who often walk around in night clubs the S & M. He decides the man, one Stuart Richards, to shadows. Later he breaks even within in the apartment of Stuart, where he finds some suspicious letters. Stuart is a gay, but his father found that terrible. It seems that Stuart gays kills to his father, who died 10 years ago, for your pleasure.

Steve provokes a confrontation with Stuart out. He acts as if he is cruising . What the two men later go to a deserted bridge to have sex. Just then tries to kill Stuart to Steve. But Steve responds quickly and overpowers Stuart. In the hospital, the injured Stuart questioned, but he wants the killings not to admit. Yet the police convinced that he is the serial killer. What is the body of Ted Edelson back later. No one knows who the culprit is.

Finally attracts Steve back in at Nancy and everything seems in order again. But when he sees himself in the mirror, he seems again to have doubts. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Trivia[ Edit] ==
 * Al Pacino - Steve Burns
 * Paul Sorvino - Capt. Edelson
 * Richard Cox - Stuart Richards
 * Karen Allen - Nancy
 * Don Scardino – Ted Bailey
 * Joe Spinell - DiSimone
 * Jay Acovone – Skip Lee
 * Powers Boothe – Hanky salesman
 * The film is based on real murders that took place between 1962 and 1979 in New York City.
 * William Friedkin had in a scene of the film The Exorcist (1973) a radiologist needed. The Assistant to the radiologist that Friedkin used, was later arrested for the murder of Addison Verrill, a columnist and homosexual. Friedkin visited the Assistant radiologist in prison during the research for Cruising. The Assistant radiologist then gave to Friedkin also admitted that he was the gay killer and therefore responsible for the murders of 1962-1979. If he spoke the truth, is never proven.
 * Karen Allen didn't get a full scenario, because they are just like her character should be unaware of what was happening in the movie.
 * Brian De Palma film Cruising like wanted, but got the rights of the book does not address. Then he decided to Dressed to Kill (1980) to film.
 * The film received during the filming constantly dealing with protest actions of gay movements.
 * The first reactions after the film were negative. It was only years later went into hiding more and more film critics that praised the film.
 * Director William Friedkin said in an interview that he was in the S & M gay Cruising environment as it showed at the time was real. In no single scene he says if this environment is good or bad.
 * The serial killer is played by other actors in the film constantly so that the Viewer does not know who it is. Most of those actors players later in the film a victim of the killer. In addition, the voice of the killerdubbed.
 * The end of the movie and a lot of other cases were deliberately left open by the filmmakers.
 * The first murder scene contains subliminal images from a porn movie. A technique that Friedkin is often used.