Ole! (1971) Online

John Holmes is the marquee star of Walt Davis's porn comedy OLE!, but familiar soft porn performer Gerard Broulard is given the spotlight in this amusing and fitfully arousing opus.

Davis is among the most talented of the pioneering pornographers, with several offbeat titles to this credit. He even directed the only Johnny Wadd private eye movie NOT helmed by Bob Chinn: THE DANISH CONNECTION.

Here he's in the loosey-goosey format of his notorious THE DEMON IN MISS JONES, replete with some kinkiness, albeit of the nonviolent variety.

Simple premise begins with Holmes (as Steve) quite grumpy, bad mouthing the celebrated matador Juan Gerardo (Broulard), who is due to attend a party being thrown by Tom (the "I'll do anything" guy Sheldon Lee) and beautiful blonde Alice (Susan Westcott - a dreamboat but not given enough to do here).

Holmes seems envious, though not in the cock department, as he egotistically whips out his massive (and flaccid) member to impress the other party-goers. Angela Dickson (Judy Angel, mainstay of earliest porn features) is impressed and immediately (though briefly) gives Holmes head.

Lee keeps stressing how turned on he is by the matador's animal magnetism, so after Holmes stresses how he's "all man", Lee tries to give him a blow job! This unusual content in a mainstream porn movie (albeit simulated, not visible via the typical "back-of-the-head" framing) is interrupted by the arrival of Juan.

Clad in tight pink matador slacks, Broulard with pony tail and lots of makeup is quite a ham, immediately taking over the party (and film). He even dances around as flamenco guitar music plays, replaced by romantic muzak or classical music (including inevitably Ravel's "Bolero" and "March of the Toreadors" from "Carmen") in later reels.

Clapping his hands and repeating some inanities, Broulard hypnotizes the five other cast members and organizes an orgy. Script refers to him as half-French, so that Broulard can use a lousy French accent rather than a Spanish one.

Orgy begins with Angel performing fellatio on Broulard, who has difficulty achieving an erection but makes up for it later; next he wisely suckles at Westcott's ample breasts.

Poor Lee is back in action, simulating fellatio on Broulard at latter's insistence, while Vicky (a young blonde played by Lynn Holmes) gets the cunnilingus treatment.

Director Davis seems to be pulling out all the stops, as next Broulard gives Holmes a blow job (!), albeit hidden from the camera again so as not to disturb overmuch the straight audience. Holmes really enjoys it, however, a harbinger of some fatally bad career decisions on his part in the years to come.

Broulard matches the two Holmeses and sends them to a bedroom to make out, resulting in a money shot by Big John.

Silliness, one of Davis's fetishes, ensues as Gerard convinces Lee in his hypnotic state that he is a German Shepherd, so he humps Westcott doggy-style, as well as in a most uncanine sixty-nine position. Broulard humps Judy, and there's a great first-person shot of Westcott's breasts as she rides John.

A small dildo is brought into play with lesbian and group sex following, culminating in a copious Broulard money shot on Westcott's belly.

Late in the game a MILF Avon lady arrives in the form of future director Ann Perry, and she is a good sport in allowing everyone to rip off her clothes and sort-of rape her (Perry acquiesces far too quickly to qualify).

Film ends on a curiously nutsy/nasty note, as Broulard goes crazy, unhypnotizes everyone as he's fed up and bored with his "fans", and everyone leaves. Broulard in-one continues his rant and breaks down in tears, fed up with his empty, hedonistic existence. I doubt that auteur Davis was trying for any significance, after the hour of strict nonsense preceding this scene, so I took it as just another Freudian Slip of a porno maestro lamenting his own sorry state.

Broulard fans (he's the lucky stiff smothered in mammaries in the classic stag shorts BREAST ORGY 1 & 2) will have to see this crazy show, while for Holmes it was merely another paycheck.

Arrogant famous matador Juan Gerardo (robustly played with lip-licking eye-rolling gusto by Gerard Broulard) uses the power of hypnosis to transform a party into an orgy.

Writer/director Walt Davis keeps the amusing story moving along at a zippy pace and maintains a likable lighthearted tone throughout. The sex scenes are quite hot, explicit, and occasionally even funny, with the barking doggy sequence rating as a definite hilarious highlight. The hysterical profane dialogue will make sensitive ears bleed (the notorious c-word gets said with alarming regularity). John Holmes as the sour and bitter Steve proudly flaunts his legendary monstrously massive mutant moose member. While slender Lynn Holmes, buxom Susan Westcott, and pretty Judy Angel all provide plenty of sizzle, it's Ann Perry who easily steals the show in a small, yet still memorable role as an eager Avon lady. The jaunty flamenco music soundtrack keeps things bouncing along -- and, yep, the inevitable "Bolero" plays in its entirety at one point. Recommended viewing for fans of 70's sin cinema.