Gerald Walker

2 months ago | theaterbyte.com | Brandon DuHamel |William Friedkin |Gerald Walker

Estimated reading time: 7 minutesCruising is the unvarnished 1980 crime thriller from director William Friedkin loosely based on the novel by The New York Times reporter Gerald Walker about a serial killer targeting gay men in the underground club scene. Al Pacino (Sea of Love) is police officer Steve Burns, brought on to go undercover in the gay male leather club scene to catch the killer, owing to Burns’ fitting the description of most of the men killed so far.