Nice and Friendly

Movie
German title	Nice and Friendly
Original title	Nice and Friendly
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1922
length	11 minutes
Rod
Director	Charlie Chaplin
script	Charlie Chaplin
production	Charlie Chaplin
cut	Charlie Chaplin
occupation
	Charlie Chaplin : Tramp; Jackie Coogan : Boy; Edwina Mountbatten : Heroine / heroine; Louis Mountbatten : Hero; Eulalia Neilson; Frederick Neilson; Sarah Pell; Stephen Pell; Robert M. Thompson;

Charles Spencer Chaplin (center) in Nice and Friendly (1922)

Nice and Friendly (Original title: Nice and Friendly , German: Nice friendly ) is an American film comedy of Charlie Chaplin from the year 1922nd

action

There isn't really a plot in Nice and Friendly as it was only filmed as a wedding present for Lord and Lady Mountbatten. In the film you can see that Lady Mountbatten wears a precious pearl necklace that crooks want to steal. Charlie Chaplin is now called, and although he is wearing his tramp costume, he chases the crooks with a wooden mallet, which suddenly appears in his hand. In the end, all the crooks lie unconscious on the lawn.

background

Nice and Friendly was filmed by Charles Chaplin as a wedding present for Lord and Lady Mountbatten and published in 1922.

Web links

Nice and Friendly in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Synopsis on verschorbene-filmstars.de (German)
Entry on the Polish Chaplin website chaplin.pl (including: film (10:51 minutes; underlaid with music by Tommy Dorsey , typographically redesigned subtitles); photo series ; eight video clips )

Individual evidence

↑ The role specification “villain” as well as the characterization of the film as “[i] mprovisierter Sketch” in Robinson's filmography, No. 68a Nice and Friendly . In: David Robinson: Chaplin. His life. His art. Translated from the English by Brigitte Mentz and Matthias Müller. Diogenes, Zurich 1989 [ Chaplin. His Live and Art . London 1985], ISBN 3-257-01801-1 , pp. 730-809, here 788f. suggest that Robinson never saw the film. The statement that the film "was never shown in public" should have been correct in 1985.
↑ ^a ^b ^c German name after Robinsons filmography, No. 68a Nice and Friendly . In: David Robinson: Chaplin. His life. His art. Translated from the English by Brigitte Mentz and Matthias Müller. Diogenes, Zurich 1989 [ Chaplin. His Live and Art . London 1985], ISBN 3-257-01801-1 , pp. 730-809, here 788f.
↑ David Robinson: Chaplin. His life. His art. Translated from the English by Brigitte Mentz and Matthias Müller. Diogenes, Zurich 1989, p. 788f. and Johannes Schmitt: Charlie Chaplin. A dramaturgical study . Lit-Verlag, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9317-0 , p. 57, date the film to 1921; Robinson implicitly through the classification, Schmitt explicitly.

[1] The role specification “villain” as well as the characterization of the film as “[i] mprovisierter Sketch” in Robinson's filmography, No. 68a Nice and Friendly . In: David Robinson: Chaplin. His life. His art. Translated from the English by Brigitte Mentz and Matthias Müller. Diogenes, Zurich 1989 [ Chaplin. His Live and Art . London 1985], ISBN 3-257-01801-1 , pp. 730-809, here 788f. suggest that Robinson never saw the film. The statement that the film "was never shown in public" should have been correct in 1985.

[robinson-2] German name after Robinsons filmography, No. 68a Nice and Friendly . In: David Robinson: Chaplin. His life. His art. Translated from the English by Brigitte Mentz and Matthias Müller. Diogenes, Zurich 1989 [ Chaplin. His Live and Art . London 1985], ISBN 3-257-01801-1 , pp. 730-809, here 788f.

[3] David Robinson: Chaplin. His life. His art. Translated from the English by Brigitte Mentz and Matthias Müller. Diogenes, Zurich 1989, p. 788f. and Johannes Schmitt: Charlie Chaplin. A dramaturgical study . Lit-Verlag, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9317-0 , p. 57, date the film to 1921; Robinson implicitly through the classification, Schmitt explicitly.