Compare Cruising to Othello
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Perhaps the most controversial film of its time due to its portrayal of homosexuality, the story follows a cop as he enters Manhattan's gay scene in search of a psychotic killer.
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With Walter Felsenstein at the helm, this filmed 1969 performance of Verdi?s OTHELLO is cinematic in scope. Hanns Nocker, Christa Noack, Vladimir Baur, and Hanna Schmook star in this release...
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With Walter Felsenstein at the helm, this filmed 1969 performance of Verdi?s OTHELLO is cinematic in scope. Hanns Nocker, Christa Noack, Vladimir Baur, and Hanna Schmook star in this release that marks the first color filming of an opera. Less
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Stars
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Al Pacino
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Actors
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Karen Allen
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Available Formats
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VHS
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DVD
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Directors
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William Friedkin
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Walter Felsenstein
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UPC
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085391167969
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807280129199
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Genre
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Dramas
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Musical & Performing Arts
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Subgenre
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Suspense
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Drama
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Music (General)
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MPAA Rating
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R (MPAA)
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Not Rated
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Release Date
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1980
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2009
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Running Time
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1hr 42min
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2hr 1min
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- DVD
- 1hr 42min
- Warner Home Video
- September 18, 2007
- Not Rated
- 085391167969
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- DVD
- 2hr 1min
- Arthaus Musik
- October 27, 2009
- 807280129199
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| VHS Editions |
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- VHS
- 1hr 44min
- Movies Unlimited
- Not Rated
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(03/01/2008, p.122, Damien Love): 3 stars out of 5 -- "CRUISING has a rare, clammy, heat -- the bleak fever dream of a director fatally hooked on his own lurid, vivid, imagination."
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Product Review Summary
50% recommend this product
Consumer Reviews
2893
Pros
vanished locations, cast, soundtrak, cinematography, DVD features
Cons
Pacino was too old for the part and too small to be left to fend_for_himself
Recommended it?
Yes
I watched both the movies set in gay milieu directed by William Friedkin (born in Chicago in 1935) back to back. The 1970 screen incarnation of the Off-Broadway cast of Mart Crowley’s “Boys in the Band” was daring, though not especially controversial at the time. It was...
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Pros
Supporting performance by Don Scardino.
Cons
Everything else.
Recommended it?
No
If ever there were a filmmaker ill-suited to adapt Gerald Walker’s fine 1970 novel Cruising, William Friedkin would most certainly poll near the top of the list. Here is a director who displayed in the excellent, hard-driving action pictures The French Connection and To Live and Die in L.A. a...
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