Filibus

Mario Roncoroni, Corona Film, Italy, 1915. It features Valeria Creti (fr) as the title character, a mysterious sky pirate who makes daring heists with her technologically advanced airship. When an esteemed detective sets out on her trail, she begins an elaborate game of cat and mouse with him, slipping between various male and female identities to romance the detective's sister and stage a midnight theft of a pair of valuable diamonds. Silent, about 79 minutes. Commons holds a complete File: print. Foreign production; catalogued unverified because source-country term is not cleared.