The Knack - and How to Get It (1965, Michael Crawford, Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks)

Kevin McGowan reports "The opening scene features Victoria Coach Station, later on London Transport Routemaster coach RMC1457 (457CLT) is seen, plus an odd looking RTL with large round rear lights, and a darker coloured roof. Loads of great street scenes of 1960s London too." Tushingham's character arrives at Victoria Coach Station aboard 448FXX, a Bedford SB/Duple Firefly, new to Samuelsons, but here sporting a North Western fleetname. You see more of the station than the coaches, but there is a glimpse of a pair of Midland Red motorway coaches from the window of 448FXX: < RMC1457 (457CLT) in Green Line coach livery is held up for a bed crossing the road: The RTL is RTL362 (KGU438); as it pulls away from the stop another Routemaster is glimpsed: There's also a distant glimpse of a second RTL:

Knock Off (1998, Jean Claude Van Damme)

A terrible film, but notable for frequent sightings of a variety of different Hong Kong buses and trams.

Knock On Wood (1954, Danny Kaye)

Shots of a London Transport standard RT, an STL, a prewar 2RT2 type RT and a Craven-bodied RT in Fleet Street. (+Colin Read)

Kommissar X - Drei gelbe Katzen AKA Death is Nimble, Death is Quick (1966, Tony Kendall)

Roger Thiedeman advises "there is one scene, at the start of the movie when the actors' credits are on-screen, in which an ex London Transport AEC RT of the Ceylon Transport Board (CTB) is seen going about its 'bus'-iness on a crowded Colombo street amidst the cacophony and confusion of a Buddhist religious procession (perahera)." Roger provided these screencaps; the quality of the the DVD they're taken from is not good!

Kommissar X - In Den Klauen des Goldenen Drachen AKA So Darling So Deadly (1966, Tony Kendall)

Screencaps again by Roger Thiedeman; I've seen these buses reported as an Albion Viking and a Guy Arab IV, but I'm open to correction, location is Singapore:

Kotch (1971, Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters)

Jack Lemmon's only film as director. Daniel Dey notes "Then middle-aged Walter Matthau played a senior citizen who takes care of a teenage babysitter who was impregnated by her boyfriend."
This anonymous GM 'New Look' appears: We see an MCI MC-5, and Kotch (Matthau) rides an MCI MC-6: There's also this tiny Taylor-Dunn, presumably electric-powered:

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