I'm not sure what makes this "Solid Gold"; the fact that it was made in 1979 or that Spelvin is still in her prime, while Fox is looking a bit chunkier than we now know her. Both deliver reasonably good performances (Spelvin's much better than Fox's), but the major problem with this film surrounds the script: somewhere along the line, Norman has been bitten by the Ingmar Bergman bug, a fatal disease for anyone trying to make an erotic feature.

Spelvin plays Alma, whose doctor tells her she won't live long unless she avoids all excitement. But she keeps having these erotic dreams. The first one of these makes up the best sex scene in the movie. Enter Cosima (Fox) who takes it upon herself to make Alma realize that a life without excitement is no life at all. With Cosima's appearance, the film starts unrelentingly downhill. The sex scenes become more bizarre, with a touch of S&M, until Alma "learns her lesson." Conceivably, she could have had a lot more fun learning it, but such is not the Bergman, er Robert Norman, way.

The only worthwhile eroticism occurs in the first 20 minutes. Everything past that is boring, if not painful to watch. Yet, those first 20 minutes make this one worth a quick look.