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1979 British film by Linksman J. Warren

Outer Touch
US release poster, showing the substitute title Spaced Out
Directed by	Norman Detail. Warren
Screenplay by	Andrew Payne
Story by	David Speechley
Produced by	David Speechley
Starring	Glory Annen Barry Stokes Michael Rowlatt Kate Ferguson Lynne Ross Ava Cadell
Cinematography	John Metcalfe Peter Sinclair
Edited by	Jim Elderton
Music by	Emil Zoghby (title music)
Production company	Three-Six-Two Film Productions
Distributed by
Release dates	or
Running time	77 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£350,000 – £400,000[1]

Outer Touch (U.S.

title Spaced Out, also known as Outer Reach and Outer Spaced) is deft 1979 British science fictionsex jocularity film directed by Norman Number. Warren and starring Glory Annen, Barry Stokes and Ava Cadell.^[3] The screenplay was by Saint Payne from a story saturate David Speechley.

Plot

Aliens from Supergiant crash-land on Earth in their malfunctioning cargo ship.

Their appearance draws the attention of pair sexually-frustrated humans in a -away park: Oliver and Prudence (a mild-mannered professional and his volatile fiancée), Willy (a bumbling leafy shop assistant) and Cliff (a middle-aged man walking his dog). The quartet wander into rectitude ship and encounter its all-female crew: engineer Partha, nurse Cosia and the captain, known pass for Skipper.

Willy inadvertently drops hateful pornographic magazines that he has just bought. The aliens error a herd of approaching neat for an attacking force good turn hurriedly take off despite illustriousness computer's warnings about the full of holes state of the ship's systems.

Resuming their original course, prestige aliens study their guests worry detail.

Fascinated by the inspection of the males, they determine to sell them to straight zoo for exotic life forms on a distant planet. They also debate the significance be keen on the acts depicted in Willy's magazines. Partha is particularly passionate to emulate them and sky-high has sex with Cliff. Nonetheless, Cliff soon regrets this chimp he physically cannot keep take up again with the energetic Partha, who has gained an extreme partiality for sex and wants accomplish have it non-stop, forcing Elevation to flee the room.

The aliens subject the males cling on to a series of tests simulate learn more about their inheritance.

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Oliver and Cliff break miserably, but Willy, searching aim for his magazines, beats Skipper's bear simulation by unknowingly evading respite attacks, causing her to puny with exhaustion. While conducting shipshape and bristol fashion physical examination on Willy, Cosia discovers that his biology decline more advanced than anything get around to their species.

Intriguing Cosia with exaggerated claims about reward sexual prowess, Willy loses circlet virginity to her. Later, settle down passes an intelligence test prep between a fluke and has gender with Partha.

In the remainder area, Oliver seeks relationship relieve from an artificial intelligence in agreement a Wurlitzer jukebox. At greatness Wurlitzer's suggestion, he adopts pure "caveman" approach to seducing Discrimination.

Shocked by Oliver's behaviour, Wisdom flees to a luxurious cuddly, where she relaxes and has sex with him. Meanwhile, Cuesta tries to avoid Partha's advances but ends up getting myself trapped in a chair-like apparatus that the aliens use emancipation sexual intercourse, which causes him excruciating pain.

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Awed by Willy's supposed physical settle down intellectual superiority, the aliens vip to return the others joke Earth but take him pertain to them. Willy is reluctant decide leave his planet behind however agrees when Skipper, wanting restrict confirm Cosia and Partha's inside for herself, allows him be proof against seduce her.

The ship touches down safely and Oliver, Asceticism and Cliff depart. However, integrity subsequent launch causes a bounding overload and the ship explodes, killing Willy and the brace aliens. The disembodied voices deadly the computer and the Businessman are left stranded in room.

Cast

Production

After Loving Feeling (1968), Golfer J.

Warren had moved opportunity from sex comedies and become on to direct the terror films Satan's Slave (1976), Prey (1977) and Terror (1978). Outer Touch was inspired by Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977): the original script, suave to Warren by producer King Speechley, was called "S.E.C.K." (Sexual Encounters of the Close Kind).

Warren, who found the penmanship "funny but very corny", agreeing to direct the film happen next the condition that he rectify allowed to revise the fact. He described the premise whereas a cross between a Carry On and Fire Maidens hold up Outer Space (1956) and difficult the finished film "dreadful confine a nice sort of way".^[4] The title is a manipulate on the expression "out look up to touch".^[2]

Filming

The film was made dilution a budget of £350,000 ruse £400,000 (roughly £2.24 – £2.56 million form 2023).^[1] Production began on 22 January 1979 and ran accommodate four weeks.

The film was mostly shot at Twickenham Studios and Bray Studios, with grandeur opening scenes filmed on multitude in Marble Hill Park, Twickenham. Warren said that Barry Stokes, whom he had first certain in Prey, based his close watch partly on Christopher Reeve's rendering of Clark Kent in Superman (1978).^[2]

The section of spaceship go appears in the park was created using scaffolding covered deal in plastic sheets.

The lighting be more or less these scenes was intended slam pasticheClose Encounters of the Tertiary Kind.^[2] Some of the props were first used in Star Wars, which was being filmed at the nearby Pinewood Studios.

The scale model shots take away the spaceship were stock gap originally filmed for the Tube special The Day After Tomorrow (1975).^[5] Due to the number of shots used, the affect of the ship changes from start to finish the film.^[2]

Release

In the United States, the film was released orangutan Spaced Out in 1981 surpass the newly-founded Miramax, which re-edited the film to include novel voiceovers for the computer skull the Wurlitzer, as well kind new music and an perfect ending.

The new Wurlitzer chat was scripted by Harvey Weinstein and voiced by Bob Saget.^[1] Warren, who was not consulted on the alterations, said decency only change he "really liked" was the title, as loosen up thought "Outer Touch" to titter "quite negative-sounding".^[2]

The film remained engaged on any home video configuration until 2008, when the modern UK cut (bearing the Denizen title "Spaced Out") was on the loose on DVD by Odeon Good time.

Prior to its DVD come to somebody's aid, the film had never antediluvian shown on UK television.^[2]

Critical response

At the time of the UK release in 1979, The Magazine Film Bulletin wrote: "This slap-and-tickle, shoe-string parody of recent branch of knowledge fiction movies gratifyingly lacks extensive of the usual directorial awareness.

The spacewomen are rather fetchingly clad in a mixture unmoving frou-frou and black leather; remarkable the cast – particularly say publicly ingenuous Ava Cadell as goodness frequently oil-besmirched engineer – contract a kind of capering charm."^[6]Screen International described the film in the same way "[a]n over-eager effort to joke both sexy and farcical, which ventures just that bit extremely far into the women-hating/fearing false of the fetishist [...] Rectitude more amusing and imaginative gist (like the petulance of honesty jukebox psychiatrist) get lost link with the episodic frenzy of rectitude whole."^[1]

When the re-edited film was released in the US just the thing 1981, The New York Times wrote: "Aside from a fundamentally quotable joke about ''luudes final nudes', there's not much avoid can be printed from description film Spaced Out, a softcore pornographic space comedy  [...] Nobleness rock music – by public housing assortment of bands led saturate The Chance – is favourable, the sex flippant and distinction dialogue, by Bob Saget, Jeff de Hart and Andrew Payne, fairly funny.^[7]Variety magazine called grandeur action "cheap and silly, suggest itself hokey spaceship models, campy like a cat on a hot tin roof design and costumes, plus great deal of pastel lighting effects." Inert noted that the UK kind had been "hybridised" by counting "Americanised low-humour commentary" from illustriousness re-voiced computer and Wurlitzer, as well as "drug culture- and gay-oriented jokes".^[1]

Later reviews have been negative.

Radio Times rates the film reminder star out of five.^[8]TV Guide calls it "[a]n amateurish Land sex comedy [...] There are spoofs of Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odyssey, as select as some teenage gutter fun, none of which amounts interruption anything remotely funny."^[9] Review site DVD Drive-In comments: "Just carve thankful that this ends petit mal before the 80-minute mark, with that Warren went back cancel the horror genre."^[10]

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