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The Knack …and How to Get It is a 1965 British comedy film directed by Richard Lester and starring Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford, and Donal Donnelly. The screenplay by Charles Wood is based on a play of the same name by Ann Jellicoe. The film is considered emblematic of the Swinging London cultural phenomenon.
The Knack... and How to Get It: Directed by Richard Lester. With Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford, Donal Donnelly. A young school teacher tries to master the art of flirtation using his neighbor's skills.
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- Comedy
- Richard Lester
- 1965-07-07
Desperate to improve his luck with women, London schoolteacher Colin (Michael Crawford) enlists his artist roommate, Tom (Donal Donnelly), to help drag a brass bed back to their flat. Along the ...
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- Rita Tushingham
- Richard Lester
- Woodfall Film Productions
A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up with a new girl in town, as well as a friendly lunatic who can’t help but paint things white.
- Richard Lester
- 85 min
- 11
A rampant womanizer tries to help an innocent friend bed an eccentric girl.
- Richard Lester, Roy Millichip
- Rita Tushingham
The Knack …and How to Get It is an adaptation of a 1962 farce by Ann Jellicoe; a parody – startlingly diagnostic for so early in the decade – of male arrogance in attitudes to women in this sex-expectant era.
A young school teacher tries to master the art of flirtation using his neighbor's skills. Cool, sophisticated Tolen (Ray Brooks) has a monopoly on womanizing--with a long line of conquests to prove it--while naïve, awkward Colin (Michael Crawford) desperately wants a piece of it.
