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Tolen: Must you be so childish?Tom: Child-like!The Knack …and How to Get It is a 1965 British comedy film directed by Richard Lester, who was best known for ...
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Desperate to improve his luck with women, London schoolteacher Colin (Michael Crawford) enlists his artist roommate, Tom (Donal Donnelly), to help drag a bra...
Trailer from "The Knack ...and How to Get It" (1965) directed by Richard Lester
Box office. $2.5 million (US) [ 1 ] 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. [ 3 ] The screenplay by Charles Wood is based on the 1962 play The Knack: A Comedy in Three Acts by Ann Jellicoe.
1965 United Kingdom Directed by Richard Lester Produced by Oscar Lewenstein Featuring Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford Running time 84 minutes
Official Trailer. 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 ...
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As deeply disturbing, relevant, and beautiful in 35mm as ever. Ariel Schudson's excellent piece on The Knack gives a lot of important insight into Lester's complex commentary on the historical oppression of women by a heterosexual patriarchy gone bonkers with the idea of "the knack." The key cutaway gag — which, typical with Lester, happens ...
