The Touchables is a 1968 British crime drama film directed by Robert Freeman and starring Judy Huxtable, Esther Anderson and James Villiers.

A remark that aptly sums up the spirit of the piece – a world of disposable daydreams, a mise en scéne that drips with the highly lacquered kinkiness of a glossy advertising lay-out.

Here, however, the colour supplement imagination has extended itself into a feature length film, shakily bolstered by Ian La Frenais' script and drawing what little energy it has from the energetic performances of its quartet of kidnappers.

Otherwise, for all the artful combinations of colour and op, pop and non-art bric-a-brac, entertainment in this form will hardly provide even a temporary solution to anyone's leisure problem.

[5] Renata Adler, writing in The New York Times, described the film as A sort of fidgety mod pornography, which uses the advertising convention for eroticism –cutting abruptly from teasing sex scenes to gadgetry, in this case pinball machines, trampolines and odd items of furniture and clothing.