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

Vittorio De Sisti Vittorio De Sisti (23 November 1940 – 22 April 2006) was a Libyan-born Italian director and screenwriter. Born in Darna, Libya, De Sisti entered the cinema industry in 1962 as a sound engineer. In 1966, after graduating from the Centro S ...

, 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

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as Eddy * Umberto Smaila as Inspector Turroni *

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as Barbara * Eva Grimaldi as Porzia *

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as Sister Melania * Marina Viro as Maria Rita aka "Mariri" * Simonetta Gianfelici as Ambra * Nina Soldano as Yoko * Silvia Annichiarico as The Department Director *

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as The Ventriloquist * Alba Parietti as

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