The Touchables (film)
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| Directed by | Robert Freeman |
| Produced by | John Bryan |
| Written by | Ian La Frenais |
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| Music by | Ken Thorne |
| Cinematography | Alan Pudney |
| Edited by | Richard Bryan |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox |
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97 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Touchables is a 1968 British film directed by Robert Freeman and written by Ian La Frenais from a story by Donald Cammell. It stars Judy Huxtable, Esther Anderson and James Villiers.
An archetype of the semi-coherent, style-over-content fashion of the time, the screenplay was written by Ian La Frenais, who had created the comedy The Likely Lads for television with his partner Dick Clement, and later responsible for some of the best-loved sitcoms of the 1970s. It was the only film directed by Robert Freeman, the photographer responsible for a number of iconic Beatles album covers. A mannequin of Diana Dors which appears in the film was the same model used in the cover montage of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Other cast members included John Ronane, Peter Gordeno, Harry Baird, Simon Williams and Joan Bakewell in a cameo role as an interviewer. The cast also includes appearances by many popular British wrestlers, including Ricki Starr, Steve Veidor, Danny Lynch and Bruno Elrington.
Largely ignored on its release and since (owing to the scarcity of prints) it has more recently acquired something of a status as a cult film of its type, in part due to a DVD release.
Douglas Cammell, who supplied the original story, would later rework a similar theme to much higher profile effect in Performance (1970).
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