Under the Greenwood Tree

“He thinks she is a Gypsy; she thinks she is a Gypsy. The real Gypsies think they know more than they do. Oh! such a mixup.”

1918

50m

Drama

Director: Émile Chautard

Overview

Acting on her love of nature and loathing of titled fortune hunters, heiress Mary Hamilton leaves home with her secretary, Peggy Ingledew, to join a band of roving gypsies. One of Mary's suitors, Sir Kenneth Graham, follows the two young women into the woods, dressed in gypsy garb, but when Jack Hutton decides to rid his forested land of gypsies, Sir Kenneth is thrown into jail.