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==Plot==

Colin is a nervous schoolteacher working in [[London]], observing rather than participating in the [[sexual revolution]] of the 1960s. He has little personal sexual experience and wishes to gain "the knack": in this case meaning a way to seduce women. He turns to a friend, a confident, womanizing drummer known only by his surname, Tolen. 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 [[sexual domination|domination]] of women. He then suggests that Colin should allow his friend "Rory" to move into thehis home (Colin's house), where he and cananother friend "share" women of both Tolen and Rory.

Colin boards the front door shut. The third flat*mateflatmate, Tom, is obsessed with painting everything white... including the windowpanes. Due to the blocked door Tolen brings his girls in through the window. Colin swaps his single bed for a fancy old double wrought iron bed which he finds in a scrapyard with Tom. Nancy meets Colin at the scrapyard. Nancy is an inexperienced and shy young woman who has arrived to London from out of town, and is searching for the [[YWCA]]. 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. Their eyes meet, Nancy's and Colin's and the "spark" of mutual-attraction has come to life.

From the scrapyard the three take the bed on a complex and zany journey back to the house. This includes parking it at a [[parking meter]], moving it on a [[Car carrier trailer|car transporter]] and carrying it down the steps of the [[Royal Albert Hall]].

In a public space, Tolen sexually assaults Nancy, who at first is silent then faints. When she wakes up, she begins [[False accusation of rape|claiming she was raped]], though this was not the case. Tolen, Colin and their friends find themselves unable to restrain her from loudly repeating the allegations, or puncturing the tirestyres of Tolen's motorcycle, and she runs back to the residence, where she throws Tolen's [[Gramophone record|records]] out of the window and strips naked. The men become convinced her rape allegations reflect a [[rape fantasy]] and urge Tolen to have sex with her. When Nancy emerges from the room wearing only a robe, she instead expresses more attraction to Colin, and he returns the interest. Nancy, through her own attraction to Colin; shows him that he already has "The Knack" because it has certainly worked with her. After an exchange of sweet-nothings, the two begin to co-habitate.

==Cast==