The sole directorial feature of composer and Jacques Brel booster Mort Shuman, the writer behind many of the Drifters' hit records and co-writer of "Viva, Las Vegas" as well as sometimes actor (The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane), Hot Erotic Dreams followed the nocturnal fantasies of a professional model (Andy Milligan star Anne Linden) as inspired by her pre-bedtime reading of a prurient paperback. It might also be Shuman hiding behind the pseudonym given for the original jazz score.