- Shy bachelor Bob asks his best friend Ted to keep him company during his first date in his pad with the girl he met at a classical concert and fell in love with. However, Ted also likes her and the date goes terribly wrong for Bob.
- Bob, who lives alone in his apartment, finds his ideal woman while going to the symphony. He dates her and brings her to his pad, only to find out she came to the symphony on a ticket she got from a co-worker. Then his best friend Ted shows up.—Pete Tyjewski <petertyj@sisna.com>
- 2 bachelors live together in a 2-3 story walk up. One is a real Casanova who brings women home all the time. The other is an introvert who is very interested in music. He plays records on an old record player and conducts wildly with a baton. "Casanova" calls the "conductor" Tschaik (short for Tschaikovsky).
Tschaik meets a plain girl who he takes to the symphony or opera and she doesn't really appreciate it, but she is grateful to have a young man pay attention to her. She is obviously a spinster (probably only in her 20's though).
Tschaik takes her back to his apartment where Casanova is. Even though Casanova doesn't really like her he woos her away from Tschaik. I believe he dumps her shortly after.
The movie ends with Tschaik sitting in a darkened room, listening once again to the aria from Madame Butterfly (I think the one where Pinkerton leaves her). He gets up and drags the phonograph needle across the record several time, placing the needle back on the record. The movie ends with him sitting in the dark crying with the record skipping over the M.Butterfly aria.
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By what name was The Pad (and How to Use It) (1966) officially released in Canada in English?
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