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The KNACK ...and how to get it

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Release Date: Monday, 18 June 2018
Country of Release: USA
MSRP: £16.99

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Directed by: Richard Lester

Featuring: Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford, Donal Donnelly, Jane Birkin, Jacqueline Bisset, Charlotte Rampling

From the director of the Beatles A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help! (1965) comes this inventive and hilarious romp through love and sex in 1960s London. Featuring a wildly frenetic filmmaking style that careers from slapstick to serious avant-garde, this genuinely dazzling film is a mod masterpiece.

Cool and sophisticated Tolen (Ray Brooks) has a monopoly on womanising - with a long line of conquests to prove it while the naïve and 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 kill. Is all fair in love and war, or can Colin get the knack and beat Tolen at his own game?

Year: 1965
Time: 84 min.

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Format:

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Discs:

BD-50 (1 Disc)

DVD-9 (1 Disc)

Total: 2 Discs

Regions:

B (Blu-ray)

2 (DVD)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66:1

Audio Options:

English PCM Mono 2.0

Resolution:

1080p/24

576p/25

Subtitles:

English

Supplements

Types of Supplements Included: Short Film, Interview, Booklet

Captain Busby the Even Tenour of Her Ways (1967, 16 mins): Ann Wolff's surreal riff on Philip O'Connor's poem, featuring Quentin Crisp
Now and Then: Dick Lester (1967, 17 mins): Bernard Braden's wide-ranging interview with the director
Rita Tushingham Remembers THE KNACK... and how to get it (2018, 11 mins): newly shot interview with the actress
Staging THE KNACK...and how to get it (2018, 2 mins): interview with the director of the first stage version of The Knack
British Cinema in the 1960s: Richard Lester in Conversation (2018, 59 mins): the director discusses his career with Neil Sinyard
Illustrated booklet with writing by Neil Sinyard and Melanie Williams, plus full film credits

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