The Knack…And How To Get It (Dual Format Edition) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)

Directed by Richard Lester

Starring: Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford, Donal Donnelly, John Bluthal, Wensley Pithey, William Dexter, Charles Dyer, Peter Copley, Dandy Nichols, Timothy Bateson, Charlotte Rampling, Jacqueline Bisset, Jane Birkin
Contributors: Oscar Lewenstein, Ann Jellicoe, Charles Wood, John Barry
Studio: BFI
Genre: Drama
Main Language: English
Region: Region B
Release Date: 18 Jun 2018
Originally Issued: 1965
No of Discs: 2
BBFC Cert: (15) Suitable for 15 years and over.

Description

Oscar Lewenstein, director of Beatles films 'A Hard Day's Night' and 'Help!', directs this madcap black and white sex comedy set in late 1960 swinging London. Michael Crawford is Colin, an awkward and naive teacher who shares a flat with smooth-talking womaniser Tolen (Ray Brooks). Keen to capitalise on the sexual revolution occurring around him, Colin asks Tolen for some advice about how to seduce women.

His first port of call is to get himself a new, bigger bed; and while he and his other flatmate, Tom (Donal Donnelly) are procuring one, they meet Nancy (Rita Tushingham), an innocent country girl who agrees to come along with them for the ride. Things are looking up for Colin... until he gets Nancy back to the flat, where she meets the irresistible Tolen and falls under his spell.

Can Colin get 'the knack' in time to beat Tolen at his own game?

Special Features

• Interactive Menus
• Interviews: 'Now and Then: Dick Lester (Director)'; 'Rita Tushingham (Actor) remembers THE KNACK... and how to get it'; 'Staging THE KNACK... and how to get it with the director of the first stage version'; 'British Cinema in the 1960s: Richard Lester in Conversation'
• Other Documentary: 'Captain Busby the Even Tenour of Her Ways';