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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Anamorphic • Black & White • Closed-captioned • Dolby • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 1965 DVD Release : 17 September, 2002 |
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The Knack... and How to Get It description Fresh from the playfully exuberant A Hard Day's Night (1964), director Richard Lester applies the same acrobatic, tongue-in-cheek style to this delightfully frivolous take on swinging London and the sexual revolution. Gawky young Michael Crawford is a meek landlord who vies with his ladies-man lodger Ray Brooks for the attentions of spirited fun ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Most of the fizz is flat |
| Forty years on the once scintillating British comedies of Richard Lester have lost a lot of their fizz. Even "A Hard Day's Night," though buoyed by the Beatles and their tunes, seems a little tired and old-fashioned. "The Knack," which Lester did a few years later, uses the same tricks: madcap antics, irreverent humor, verbal nonsense (that somewhat foreshadows Monty Python), quick-cut editing, cute locations and such. Though based on a play, the film is long on style and attitude and short on plot. Nerd (Michael Crawford) envies a stud (Ray Brooks) with a "knack" with the ladies. Along comes Nancy (Rita Tushingham), a sort of everywoman, and the tussle for her begins. Oh, and there's daft painter about, a sort of revisitation of Gulley Jimpson, adding to the chaos. The picture captures the mood of mod '60s London pretty well, and David Watkin's black and white photography and Lester's visuals are striking. And to top it off, there's John Barry's rather famous score for organ and jazz orchestra, probably one of his best. Most of the fizz that's left is there. | |
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