Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KNACK. As the gamin up for grabs in a town house occupied by three offbeat British bachelors, Rita Tushingham shines through the sight gags in Director Richard Lester's (A Hard Day's Night) frantic, frequently hilarious version of the New York-London stage...
...other facilities abuilding or in the design state from Argentina to New Zealand. Under Driscoll, sales have nearly tripled; last year, on a volume of $335 million, earnings after taxes grew 14% to a record $34 million. Says the growth-minded Governor, who retains a politician's knack for sharpening a cliche: "I regard eggs in many baskets as one of our prime strengths...
Tolen has The Knack. With a tap on his snare drum, a fillip of his hair, or an rpm of his white cycle he can banish the serneity of any normal giri and transform her into a quivering mass of ungovernable desire. Colin wants to get The knack. He's just a mild-mannered, horny school-teacher who'd be satisfied with one of Tolen's girls. So when Nancy arrives, Colin decides to make his feeble play, with some help from Tom, a crazy Irishman who must paint everything white. Good destroys evil, Colin gets Nancy, and Tolen loses...
Director Richard Lester apparently saw he had a good thing going in A Hard Day's Night, so he repeats his rapid-cut technique here with equal success. He had a stage hit on his hands before he began filming, for The Knack, filled theatres in London -- where Miss Tushingham created the role Nancy -- and New York. But Lester made an indoor play into an outdoor movie, spicing it with wild cycle rides, water skiing romps, and traffic tie-ups. His sight gags are old hat slapstick but none the worse for wear, and they don't overshadow the personal...
...Knack moves too fast to let you or the actors take it seriously. After you've gulped down the last frame, and you've stopped warmly tottering out of the theatre, you're sure of just two things: you're seen a very funny movie, and Rita Tushingham is the greatest girl ever made...