Virgin Dreams (Zebedy Colt, 1977)

 The sole IMDb review (from the indefatigable lor_ who has reviewed 11,752 films [mostly het porn!] for the site) for this curio screams "Zebedy Colt goes Ken Russell!" Virgin Dreams isn't quite that phantasmagoric. Or if it is, then it's phantasmagoria on an extreme budget. Whatever the case, it works for this entry in the dreams-versus-reality porn subgenre. Story concerns frigid Nancy (Jean Jennings) whose parents are Gloria Leonard (!) and Zebedy Colt (!!). As you might imagine, they are far more sexually liberated than Nancy and long for her to succumb to the hunky charms of her fiancé Daniel. Nancy has several erotic nightmares, the wildest with Colt possessing the ability to change the sexual positions of orgy participants with the crack of a whip. She eventually thaws out which gives way to a coda that makes no sense (that I could discern). Good stuff!

But lo - who is this man playing Daniel? Wade Nichols? His face is sooooo familiar to me. Why, it's Dennis Parker, the name under which Nichols recorded an album for Casablanca in 1979 called Like an Eagle. Here's the title track:

Nichols/Parker and Colt were gay (Colt possibly bisexual) and their presence in (and behind) Virgin Dreams is testament to the queerness of heterosexual porn, if not of sexuality overall. For more on Colt, see these two blog posts from Whit Strub. For Nichols/Parker, see this typically thorough Rialto Report.

Grade: A-minus

Wade Nichols and an orgy of candles