Terrible...Yet I Could Not Look Away...

Even for a mod film, 1968's THE TOUCHABLES is a strange one, despite little-to-no "trip-out" scenes, no drug use, little drinking, and a plot that's barely there (if at all).
Four care-free rich girls kidnap a statue of Michael Caine at a party. When its owner retrieves it, the girls decide to kidnap a famous rock singer (Christian) at a wrestling match. Three of them dress as nuns while one dresses as a cigarette girl. They lure him into the back room during the match and manage to knock him out and dress him as a nun. They wheelchair him out of there, into their nifty sports car, and head out to the English countryside where they live in an enormous see-through Dome on seemingly endless property (which includes a huge lake).
The girls tie him to their round bed and keep him prisoner, but like any swinging 60s heterosexual rock star, Christian accepts his fate and indulges the ladies one at a time (there's practically no nudity and the sex scenes cut away to the next scene or go into goofy dream sequences that attempt to be symbolic of something I couldn't decipher). When not shagging, the girls entertain Christian (and each other) with ping pong tournaments, pinball, dancing and poetry reading. It's nice to have money and not have to work...no?
One of the wrestlers is a sort-of boyfriend to one of our rich Dome girls, and his black wrestler nemesis (named Lilly White!) has his goons looking for the kidnapped Christian, a man he'd "Like to know a lot more about." Yep, there's gay undertones all throughout the film (both male and female) but they're never explored.
While it's not discussed why these girls are so rich, most viewers won't care due to the look of this beautifully shot (and edited) film that must've looked amazing on a big screen (the film has not come (legally) to video, but plays occasionally on the Fox Movie Channel, where I recently caught it).
THE TOUCHABLES, though completely pointless, is as much of a female fantasy as a male's, and in that regard it works as eye-candy (albeit PG-rated) of the obscure kind.
I'm assuming the film takes place IN 1968 (the year it was made), although during a mock-court sequence, one of the girls mentions a law that was created in 1987, so along with several other questions, you'll have to let this slide and enjoy the ladies playing foosball in their short nighties.
Lilly White's goons end up locating Christian at the Dome, and before long Christian's tour manager and several others converge for a fist-flying ending that's as out of place as the sudden opening party scene. This freaky mess ends with Christian agreeing to head to Hollywood with his manager (a possible symbol of the UK finding its own mod scene getting tired?) and the Dome being deflated, looking like a pseudo 007 flick.
Sadie, Melanie, Busbee, and Samson are 4 beautiful friends who are hard to take your eyes off, and I'm assuming Christian (with his Beatles / pre-Justin Bieber hairdo) has some sort of appeal, but only fans of meaningless cinema will be able to sit through this thing even one complete time. It would, however, make a GREAT midnight movie...
The Groovy Girls of THE TOUCHABLES (Front: Ester Anderson. Sitting: Monika Ringwald, Kathy Simmonds and Judy Huxtable)