The Black Gloves is a 1992 giallo that goes past the tease and goes directly to hardcore. It’s directed by Frank Simon, who is really Silvio Bandinelli, who spent his career in adult. He also wrote the script with Ernesto de Pascale.

Also released as Private Detective and Masquerade, this is available in softcore and hardcore form. Linda Forrester (Raven, billed as Nellie Marie Vickers; she is also in the mainstream film Angel Eyes, directed by Gary Graver as well as adult classics like Taboo and Curse of the Cat Woman) and Guido Moranto (Joey Silvera, also an adult star) are working undercover to investigate art theft from collector Anesto, whose half-brother has already been murdered by a killer with black gloves.

Italian adult star Eva Orlowsky, who appears the Illona “Cicciolina” Staller’s directed and written movie Diva Futura – L’avventura dell’amore which is about a group of forward thinking women trying to get a cure for AIDS finished before the Vatican stops it, plays the art dealer’s wife Anna, who has her own affair happening with Roberto (Rocco Siffredi, maybe the most famous European male adult actor ever; he takes his name from Roch Siffredi, the character played by Alain Delon in Borsalino).

It also has Teri Weigel in the cast, who was one of the first Playboy Playmates to do Penthouse and adult, as well as someone who crossed over into the mainstream, appearing in Predator 2 and Marked for Death.

It’s pretty amazing that this is a shot on film adult giallo, even if the murders are pretty mild and it all looks like it was shot for TV.