The Knack... and How to Get It

Some have it, Some Don't.

Overview:

Cool, sophisticated Tolen (Ray Brooks) has a monopoly on womanizing - with a long like of conquests to prove it - while the naïve, awkward Colin (Michael Crawford) desperately wants a piece of it. But when Colin falls for an innocent country girl (Rita Tushingham), it's not long before the self-assured Tolen moves in for the kill. Is all fair in love and war, or can Colin get the the knack and beat Tolen at his own game?

Released: 1965-05-01

Duration: 01:24:00

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Director: Richard Lester

Writer: Ann Jellicoe, Charles Wood

Cast: Jane Birkin, Jacqueline Bisset, Peter Copley, ...

Director: Richard Lester

Writer: Ann Jellicoe Charles Wood

Cast: Jane Birkin Jacqueline Bisset Peter Copley Donal Donnelly Rita Tushingham Ray Brooks Michael Crawford William Dexter Wensley Pithey John Bluthal Charles Dyer Lucille Soong Charlotte Rampling Julian Holloway Pattie Boyd Wanda Ventham

Genre: Comedy Fantasy Romance

Description

In England, the times are a changing: it's mods and rockers. On the day Nancy gets off the London train, cases in hand, looking for the YWCA, Colin has had enough of missing out on the sexual revolution. He begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal Tolen to teach him 'the knack' - how to score with women. Serendipitously, Colin and his new lodger Tom meet up with Nancy while Colin's buying a bed larger than Tolen's. The three hit it off, but their simple fun ends when Tolen meets Nancy. Colin is jealous but impotent, and Tolen both attracts and repels her. She swoons, wonders what happened, and cries 'rape.' Impish serendipity rubs against unsettling ambiguity.