Movie: Cruising (1980)
Tagline: Al Pacino is Cruising for a killer.
Trivia: During murder scene in a room at the St. James Hotel where a man is stabbed to death on a bed, director William Friedkin edited in several near-subliminal frames from a gay hardcore movie that can clearly be seen in slow motion on DVD.
Goofs: Continuity: Steve Burns is in a patrol car with his fellow detectives and points out a suspect. He tells them that the man’s name is Skip, but does not know his surname. But in the previous scene the barman tells Burns the suspect’s name is Skip Lea.
“A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York’s S&M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as decoy for the murderer. Working almost completely isolated from his department, he has to learn and practice the complex rules and signals of this little society. While barely seeing his girlfriend Nancy anymore, the work starts changing him. Written by Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>”
