
There is no real plot in this little short, who was made only as a wedding present for Lord and Lady Mountbatten. The main plot line is that Lady Mountbatten has a valuable pearl necklace, which a very large number of crooks wants to steal.


Imagine, if you can, a bijou bauble of celluloid slipped into a velvet ring-box rather than a projector gate—Nice and Friendly is exactly that: a private trinket Charlie Chaplin minted for two aristocrats who already owned half the Empire’s silverware. Yet within its scant four-minute pulse beats a riotous manifesto ...

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Charles Chaplin

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" Imagine, if you can, a bijou bauble of celluloid slipped into a velvet ring-box rather than a projector gate—Nice and Friendly is exactly that: a private trinket Charlie Chaplin minted for two aristocrats who already owned half the Empire’s silverware. Yet within its scant four-minute pulse beats a riotous manifesto about ownership, appetite, and the sheer absurdity of wanting. Shot in September 1922 on the terraces of Broadlands, the Mountbattens’ Hampshire abode, the film never wanted for d..."
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