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FILIBUS: THE MYSTERIOUS AIR PIRATE
♪ Live piano accompaniment by Steve Sterner ♪
Italy, 1915
Directed by Mario Roncoroni
Starring Valeria Creti, Cristina Ruspoli, Giovanni Spano
Approx. 76 mins. DCP.
“The amazing story focuses on a cross-dressing woman who, in disguise, appears as the daring thief Filibus, the Baroness Troixmond, and Count de la Brive. Lowered from her dirigible in a gondola by a support crew, Filibus steals from the rich and confounds the police. He now targets the huge diamond eyes of an ancient Egyptian statue while framing famed Detective Kutt-Hendy who has implanted a miniature camera behind one of the cat’s eyes. Sedatives used to take advantage of victims, faked fingerprints, a kidnapping, and a romance: all figure into the clever twists and turns.” – KDHX
Restored by EYE, Amsterdam.
Courtesy Milestone / Kino Lorber.