Quite a Lad

A shy young man, having fallen out of grace with his fiancée, decides to become yet again the love of his disappointed lady by some brave deed. In the absence of real-life alternatives, he hires a few strolling players to assault them as a group of highwaymen while the two of them are hill-climbing. They are paid by the would-be-hero to be let driven away. However, the two young people and his friends are attacked by a group of real bandits, while the pseudo-highwaymen attack the unsuspecting members of a company. The young man drives his attackers away, and his fiancée is now a happy woman who feels she can rely on her man. (official distributor synopsis)