New York City Inferno

Paris back in the late 1970's showed this film in a public cinema where anyone over 18 years old could see it. It's tagline was ' a descent into a homo hell ' and the poster depicts rough looking men aggressively looking out of the poster. It was shown in the Rue du Dragon and the cinema was called Dragon 24, and it showed other explicit films including ' Le Beau Mec ' which was a much better film than this one. Jacques Salieri did not give his name as director, but called it a Marvin Merkins film and that puzzles me. He made again in my opinion one very good adult film than this and yet this is the one that gets a page to itself on Wikipedia. It is predominantly a negative portrayal of homosexual sex and in my opinion it is a morbid, almost cruel depiction of casual sexuality despite the fact that a slight ' romantic ' element is put into it. I believe it is of its time and as a sad document of that late 70's era it is debatably important.