Pacino dons the leathers as a cop who goes undercover in New York’s gay scene.
New York’s mean streets were home to the gay subculture as well as Scorsese’s small-time Mafiosos. A psychopath is stalking S&M clubs to lure potential victims to their death, so cop Steve Burns (Pacino) dons his leathers to go undercover, and finds the illicit world of male fetishism more enticing than he thought.
USA-West Germany 1980
Dir William Friedkin
With Al Pacino, Karen Allen, Paul Sorvino
102min
Digital
Certificate 18