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The Knack and How To Get It
(1965)
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Director:
Richard Lester
Actors:
John Bluthal,
Michael Crawford,
Peter Copley,
Timothy Bateson,
Dandy Nichols,
Ray Brooks,
Charles Dyer,
Rita Tushingham,
Donal Donnelly,
Wensley Pithey,
William Dexter,
Margot Thomas,
Gerald Toomey
You either have it or you don't. The knack, that is, of seduction! From the director of the Beatles' movies A Hard Day's Night and Help! comes this "inventive and hilarious" (Time) romp through love and sex in 1960's London. Featuring Richard Lester's frenetic filmmakin...
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You either have it or you don't. The knack, that is, of seduction! From the director of the Beatles' movies A Hard Day's Night and Help! comes this "inventive and hilarious" (Time) romp through love and sex in 1960's London. Featuring Richard Lester's frenetic filmmaking style – careening from slapstick to serious to avant-garde – this "genuinely dazzling" (Los Angeles Times) film is a mod masterpiece!
Cool and sophisticated Tolen (Ray Brooks) has a monopoly on womanizing – with a long line of conquests to prove it – while the naïve and 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 knack and beat Tolen at his own game?
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Cool and sophisticated Tolen (Ray Brooks) has a monopoly on womanizing – with a long line of conquests to prove it – while the naïve and 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 knack and beat Tolen at his own game?
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Member Reviews (6)
6 Member Reviews
Mara
says
Vastly underrated, clever and challenging film that encapsulates a period. The frustrated teacher, the predatory mod, the childlike artist and the Northern girl just of the bus come together to create a unique slice of mid-sixties London. Some of Lester's best work, the images and phrases remain with the viewer.
Nigel W
says
Inspired by the French new wave???s turning upside down traditional narrative and camera technique, the English soon got in on the act. Mixed with swinging sixties sensibilities and class critique, the English came up with its own trendy but often vacuous films, such as this one. Very much of its time, it now comes across rather shambolic and tedious.
Janice T.
says
Like the previous reviewer, I didn't finish it either. Best bits were the women's clothes.
Hilary A.
says
i shall date myself and reveal that i saw this movie at the cinema when it first came out, which is why i wanted to see it again. it is an evocative portrayal which sure reminded me of those days, and what it was like to share digs in london in b
Inge C.
says
what a waste of time only watched the beginning then could not take it anymore
Christopher B.
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