The men become convinced her rape allegations reflect rape fantasy and urge Tolen to have sex with her. She runs back to the house, where she throws Tolen's records out of the window and strips naked. Tolen, Colin and Tom are unable to restrain her from loudly repeating the allegations, or puncturing the tyres of Tolen's motorcycle. When she wakes up she claims she was raped, though this was not the case. In a public space, Tolen sexually assaults Nancy, who at first is silent and then faints. This includes parking it at a parking meter, moving it on a car transporter, floating it along the River Thames, and carrying it down the steps of the Royal Albert Hall. She stops by a clothing store and is won over by the flattery of the clerk, until she overhears him repeating the same words to every female customer.įrom the scrapyard the three take the bed on a complex and zany journey back to the house. Nancy is an inexperienced and shy young woman who has arrived to London from out of town, and is searching for the YWCA. Colin swaps his single bed for a fancy old double wrought iron bed which he finds in a scrapyard with Tom. Due to the blocked door Tolen now brings his women in through the window. He is obsessed with painting everything white. Tom, who is passing, takes up occupation of the vacant room. He suggests that Colin should let another friend move into Colin's spare room, and they could "share" women.Ĭolin boards the front door shut. Tolen gives him unhelpful advice to consume more protein and use intuition, acknowledging intuition is not something that can be completely learned, and advocates the importance of domination of women. He turns to his friend and tenant, a confident, womaniser known only by his surname, Tolen. He has little personal sexual experience and wishes to gain "the knack" of how to seduce women. Rita Tushingham was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, and the film was nominated for Best English-Language Foreign Film.Ĭolin is a nervous schoolteacher working in London, observing rather than participating in the sexual revolution of the 1960s. At the 19th British Academy Film Awards, the film was nominated in six categories, including BAFTA Award for Best Film and Outstanding British Film. The film premiered in-competition at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival, and won the Palme d'Or and the Technical Grand Prize. The film is considered emblematic of the Swinging London cultural phenomenon. The screenplay by Charles Wood is based on a play of the same name by Ann Jellicoe. 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.
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