Director Lester continued to defy convention as he had with A HARD DAY'S NIGHT in this, his follow-up feature. The style is extremely fast paced; the characters are nonstop talkers who move about incessantly. Essentially created in the cutting room, Lester's films rely upon techniques which
have been commonly employed throughout commercial film history, but which are combined in a unusual and flamboyant, if not always successful manner.
Tolen's (Brooks) luck with women ("the knack") baffles his schoolteacher landlord Colin (Crawford). This resident stud takes the eager but shy man under his wing and advises him to buy a new brass bed. After finding an appropriat...
Released:
1965
Rated:
NR
Length:
84 mins