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...KNACK. There is more than enough running, jumping and New Cinema gimmickry in this movie version of the New York-London stage success, but the sight gags are often funny and so is Rita Tushingham as the girl pursued by three oddball British bachelors...
...Knack . . . and how to get it, as film comedies go, is too clever for its own good. Based on Ann Jellicoe's giddy, free-spirited play-still bouncing along off-Broadway-The Knack tells of a provincial lass (Rita Tushingham) at large in London who stumbles into a house occupied by three oddball bachelors. One is a potent pipsqueak (Ray Brooks), mysteriously endowed with the knack of "making it" with the opposite sex. One is a pallid, reticent schoolteacher (Michael Crawford), for whom the way of a Mod with a maid remains ever beyond reach. The third (Donal Donnelly...
...Girls. The tricks are diverting at first, but finally smack of gimmickry. In the midst of so much frenzy, nothing can really happen, and the dialogue is whipped off at a tommy-gun clip in accents that challenge comprehension anywhere west of Land's End. Only Actress Tushingham and Michael Crawford, in his moments with her, ever truly possess The Knack...
GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. Britain's Rita Tushingham, shrewdly guided by Director Desmond Davis, brings warmth, wit and wonderful variety to this portrait of an Irish colleen who falls in love with a man more than twice...
GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. As a bubbly colleen who chances a fling with a middle-aged author. Britain's Rita Tushingham makes a trite tale seem fresh, poignant, and deliciously funny...