That Tender Touch

"I want you Marsha, but it's wrong!" Lesbian lovers Marsha and Terry (Sue Bernard, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) share a happy life until Terry runs off to the suburbs with her new husband, Ken. Tormented, Marsha turns to drink and shows up destitute on Terry's doorstep, determined to win Terry back.

Suburbia proves to be a frisky 'no-man's land', however, and it's crawling with women - divorcees, teenage daughters, even the English maid - who want to seduce desperate Marsha. Classic low-budget grindhouse fare, That Tender Touch is a hilarious example of sensational soft-core cinema pumped out in the 1960s and 1970s after the relaxation of US censorship laws.

Rescued from obscurity by a lezploitation collector, it shows the wear of time, but remains a fascinating look at early lesbian representation on screen. Contemporary audiences will find this campy potboiler filled with fevered dreams, girl-on-girl action, mod fashion, and its melodramatic excesses wildly entertaining.