''The Perfect Crime'' ( it, Indagine su un delitto perfetto/ ''Investigation of a Perfect Crime'') is a 1978 Italian
giallo
In Italian cinema, ''Giallo'' (; plural ''gialli'', from ''giallo'', Italian for yellow) is a genre of mystery fiction and thrillers that often contains slasher, crime fiction, psychological thriller, psychological horror, sexploitation, and, ...
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crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
directed by
Giuseppe Rosati and starring
Leonard Mann
Leonard Mann (15 November 1895 – 29 April 1981) was an Australian poet, and novelist.
Life
He served in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, and with the Department of Aircraft Production in World War II.
He was, in Septemb ...
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It was one of the last features for actor Anthony Steel.
Cast
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Gloria Guida
Gloria Guida (; born 19 November 1952) is an Italian actress and model. She is best known for starring in commedia erotica all'italiana, particularly the '' La liceale'' series, and also in erotic coming-of-age-drama films in the mid-1970s.
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as Polly Rennie
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Leonard Mann
Leonard Mann (15 November 1895 – 29 April 1981) was an Australian poet, and novelist.
Life
He served in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, and with the Department of Aircraft Production in World War II.
He was, in Septemb ...
as Sir Paul De Revere
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Joseph Cotten
Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American film, stage, radio and television actor. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of '' The Philadelphia Story'' and ''Sab ...
as Sir Arthur Dundy
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Adolfo Celi
Adolfo Celi (; 27 July 1922 – 19 February 1986) was an Italian film actor and director. Born in Curcuraci, Messina, Sicily, Celi appeared in nearly 100 films, specialising in international villains. Although a prominent actor in Italian ...
as Sir Harold Boyd
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Anthony Steel as Supt. Jeff Hawks
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Janet Agren as Lady Gloria Boyd
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Alida Valli
Alida Maria Laura, ''Freiin'' Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), better known by her stage name Alida Valli (or simply Valli), was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films in a 70-year career, s ...
as Lady Clementine de Revere
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Franco Ressel
Franco Ressel (8 February 1925 – 30 April 1985) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1961 and 1985. He was born in Naples, Italy and died in Rome, Italy.
Selected filmography
* ''La cento chilometri'' (19 ...
as Sgt. Phillips
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Paul Muller as Gibson
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Mario Novelli
Mario Novelli (26 February 1940 – 21 August 2016) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1962. He died on 21 August 2016.
Filmography
References
External links
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1940 births
Italian male film actors
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(as Anthony Freeman) as saboteur
* Elio Stefanizzi
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Claudio Gora
Claudio Gora, '' Emilio Giordana '' (27 July 1913 – 13 March 1998) was an Italian actor and film director.
He was particularly prolific, making some 155 appearances in film and television over nearly 60 years (from 1939 to 1997). In the 1950s ...
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Tom Felleghy
Tom Felleghy (born Tamás Fellegi; 26 November 1921) is a Hungarian-born Italian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1958.
Filmography
References
External links
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1921 births
Possibly living people
Hungarian ma ...
as Dr. Hobbes (uncredited)
References
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1978 films
1978 crime films
Italian crime films
1970s Italian-language films
Films directed by Giuseppe Rosati
Films scored by Carlo Savina
1970s Italian films
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