''Delitti e profumi'' (also known as ''Crimes and Perfume'') is a 1988 Italian

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directed by Vittorio De Sisti, based on a story entitled ''Scarlet'' by Bonadies and De Fornari, both of whom also worked on the screenplay. Traci Lords appears in a cameo, a brief appearance in a softcore porn clip.Luther-Smith,Adrian (1999). ''Blood and Black Lace: The Definitive Guide to Italian Sex and Horror Movies''. Stray Cat Publishing Ltd. p. 39

Cast

Jerry Calà Calogero Alessandro Augusto Calà, known by his stage name Jerry Calà (born 28 June 1951), is an Italian actor, filmmaker, comedian and singer who has written, directed, and acted in multiple film and television projects. He is considered one of ...

as Eddy *

Umberto Smaila Umberto Smaila (born 26 June 1950) is an Italian actor, composer, comedian, television personality, entrepreneur, and musician. Born in Verona to an Istrian family, in the early-1970s Smaila co-founded together with Jerry Calà, Franco Oppini an ...

as Inspector Turroni *

Lucrezia Lante della Rovere Lucrezia Lante della Rovere (; born 19 July 1966) is an Italian actress in film, television and theatre, who made her debut in Mario Monicelli's '' Speriamo che sia femmina'' (1986), where she acted along with Catherine Deneuve, Stefania Sandr ...

as Barbara * Eva Grimaldi as Porzia *

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as Sister Melania * Marina Viro as Maria Rita aka "Mariri" * Simonetta Gianfelici as Ambra *

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as Yoko * Silvia Annichiarico as The Department Director *

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as The Ventriloquist *

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in cameo appearance

Plot

Eddy, a detective who works as a security guard in a department store, is engaged to Barbara, a clerk in the same store. After receiving some perfume as a gift from a mysterious admirer, Barbara is burnt to death when she walks under some warm halogen spotlights. In order to discover what killed Barbara, Eddy decides to investigate together with Inspector Turroni. Afterwards, a prostitute named Portia is murdered in a similar way and Eddy discovers the cause of their deaths... the perfume sent to each victim by the killer contains a highly flammable substance (

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-15). Eddy decides to find if there was a connection between the two victims and he discovers that each victim had in her possession a piece of a picture. The picture was taken years before, in 1971, when the victims were just young girls. They had spent that summer together with a girl named Mariri, and one other mysterious girl, at a holiday camp managed by Sister Melania. The criminal is apparently getting revenge for a terrible accident that happened that summer at the camp.

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1988 films Giallo films 1980s Italian-language films 1980s crime thriller films Films directed by Vittorio De Sisti 1980s Italian films Italian crime thriller films {{crime-thriller-film-stub