The Knack, and How to Get It How I Won the War

Richard Lester follows up A Hard Day's Night with an off-center sex comedy, then a surrealist send-up of war starring Beatle John Lennon.

The Knack, and How to Get It features Rita Tushingham as a na've young woman trying to make sense of an often confounding and usually swinging London. (1965; 84 mins.)

John Lennon plays a Cockney soldier in How I Won the War, a surrealistic send-up of the horrors of war and a slap in the face to vainglorious memories of BritainÌs past as a military empire. (1967; 109 mins.)