Based on Browning's poem, a widowed Duchess raises a son that decides to abandon modern ways and act like it's the medieval days. When he wishes to marry, a young woman is found and plays along believing it's all a joke.
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Gladys Hulette as Lady Alice - The Earl's Ward
Barnett Parker as The Duke
Robert Gray as The Earl
Nellie Parker Spaulding as The Duke's Mother
Wayne Arey as Gypsy Blacksmith
Carolyn Lee as The Gypsy's Mother
Eugene Nowland Director
Robert Browning Poem
Virginia Tyler Hudson Scenario Writer
Virginia Tyler Hudson Writer
Robert Browning Story
Edwin Thanhouser Executive Producer
Otto Brautigan Cinematography
United States 11 March 1916
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