I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

This film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, but no surprise...it's the kind of "transgressional" film that critics love, those films that break taboos and mock tradition. (That mockery is very clear in "The Knack." One of the recurring narrative devices is using commentary by "old people" on the horrible behavior of the young. Many of these comments contain "unwitting" double entendres: oh, how clever we script-writers are!) It's a flimsy plot about a man about town who can have any woman he wants (indeed, they line up outside his flat), and his downstairs neighbor, a naïve teacher who'd like to learn how to get women to like him. It's told in Lester's early style, with loads of quick cuts, odd angles, mannered dialog, etc. A new woman arrives on the scene and a sort of competition ensues for her "favors." The plot advances at a sluggish pace, bogged down by long set pieces, including a silly slapstick sequence in which three characters move a huge iron bed frame from a junkyard to the flat. Near the end, the suave ladykiller almost has his way with the girl, but she goes into a state of psychological shock in which she imagines she has been raped. This is actually played for COMEDY, and the word "rape" is used about 100 times in a painful denouement. Oh, how transgressive we film-makers are! THE KNACK is one of those films that tried so hard to be hip and contemporary that today, it's almost impossible to watch without cringing. John Barry's score adds even more "nails-on-the-blackboard" ambiance with its relentless, shrill pop sounds. I'm sure this was all very shocking at the time, which seems to have been the main idea behind this regrettable relic from the swinging 60s.

The range of emotions in these reviews is fascinating. I am not usually a fan of art deco movies with no real point. Blow-Up, for example. However, something about this one reeled me in just enough to finish it. I was born in '66 and have a romantic feeling for the '60s, an era I just missed being part of. Always wish I had been born around '50. The movie gives you a great feeling for being young and British, even if it is not truly representative, as another reviewer wrote. Movies are not often intended to be representative.The score is compelling, as is the zaniness. If you have seen movies of this genre (which I call 'pointless'), and recognize it early on, you have a decision as to whether you are going to watch just for the scenery. I recognized it and followed through to relatively satisfying results. At least, I don't feel that I wasted my time, unlike Blow-Up.If you are willing to spend 85 minutes to get a feeling of mid-60s youth in Britain and have a few laughs, this movie is for you Just don't expect a conclusion that pulls it all together.

As the '60's progressed, a sea change took place in British film comedy. Norman Wisdom and St.Trinians were suddenly out-of-date ( though they kept on going for a few more years ), and a new wave of Britcoms appeared, among them 'The Knack'.Richard Lester had just made 'A Hard Days' Night' and brought the same mindset to this picture. Coming a year before Time magazine published its famous 'Swinging London' article, it depicts a Britain on the cusp of a cultural and ( more importantly ) sexual revolution. As Spike Millgan later put it: "Queen Victoria died in 1960!".It is arty ( shot in glorious black and white ), sexist, often irritating, yet manages in its own way to say something serious about human relationships.Michael Crawford stars as 'Colin', a shy, repressed schoolteacher brassed off because his boarder, the good-looking 'Tolen' ( Ray Brooks ) has a knack for 'pulling the birds'. Tolen is the Russell Brand of his day; girls are literally queueing outside his room at all times for sex. Tolen offers Colin a masterclass in the art of seduction.Tolen's attitude to the fairer sex is: "I see, I want and I take", the sort of chauvinistic attitude probably responsible for Women's Lib in the first place. But even his powers are about to be tested to the limit when along comes Nancy ( Rita Tushingham ) a Northern lass newly arrived in London in search of lodgings. Nancy is immune to Tolen's 'Mr.Tight Trousers' persona, and when he tries to get fresh with her she cries 'Rape!'.A number of reviewers have described the movie as 'dated'. They are absolutely right. But it is fascinating for that reason alone. It is now a quaint museum piece, the sexual attitudes and mores of the era are on view and are fascinating. It may surprise some to learn that the play on which the film is based was written by a woman - Ann Jellicoe.Lester took the play and opened it out ( with help from screenwriter Charles Wood ), turning it into a visual delight. Surrealism had finally joined the comedy mainstream. The jokes come at you so fast you need to be quick to pick them up. For instance, when Colin wonders whether to let his front room to a monk, we suddenly cut to a bus full of monks. When he gets angry and tries to keep Tolen out of the house by boarding up the front door, the film turns into a mini-lecture on carpentry.Throughout a Greek chorus of elderly people comment on events. "I know what she's looking for and its not the Y.W.C.A.!". Their remarks are much the same as you would hear nowadays. Being too old for sex themselves, they frown on the younger generation for being able to do it. Its these quirky flourishes that gives the film much of its charm. The famous scene where Colin, Nancy and Tom push a bed through the streets of London employs a style that was later used on 'The Monkees' and 'The Goodies'.The cast are excellent, in particular Donal Donnelly as an eccentric Irishman with a mad compulsion to paint everything white. Michael Crawford's 'Colin' has all the naivety of his later ( better known ) role of 'Frank Spencer'. Tushingham's innocent waif is appealing. As 'Tolen', all quiff and dark glasses, Ray Brooks is the epitome of '60's cool, a man who has women falling for him like dominoes. Watching this again recently, it occurred to me what a great vehicle for Peter Cook and Dudley Moore this would have made. The humour is broadly in line with what the duo were doing on 'Not Only But Also'. You can easily imagine Cook as 'Tolen' and Moore as 'Colin'. Perhaps these characters inspired the ones they later played in 'Bedazzled'. The film has its share of longueurs, however. Colin pretending to be a lion is something I think it could have done without. And Nancy's cries of 'Rape!' to passers-by have ensured it a high place on the 'it has not aged well' movie lists. 'Comedy has a new freedom' gushed Newsweek magazine at the time of its release. Absolutely. Rather than being brushed under the carpet, sex was now openly talked about on screen. There was to be no going back. Nudity and bad language would soon enter the equation.I must mention John Barry's marvellous score. He was on the top of his game here ( having just done 'Goldfinger' and 'Zulu' ) and the music perfectly accompanies the offbeat action. You will be humming that gorgeous title theme for days.If you want a British movie that has 'Sixties' written all over it, look no further. It also manages to be a life-affirming, witty and accomplished piece of work.

A young and sexually frustrated school teacher rents out a room in his old house to a hip drummer with a motorcycle who is an expert at seduction in the hope of learning how he does it. Crazy editing and a haphazard style make it a challenge for those of us brought up on westerns and film noirs. A youth movie for the 60's with Rita Tushingham who seemed to embody that period of youthful British cinema, with a decidedly British humor and a take on society and sex, all wrapped up in the anarchy of free form movie making. Similar in style to Lester's "Hard Day's Night" but without the Beatles to carry it, this film relies more on the patience of the viewer, as it has a nice little story within the chaos.