ChanBot
i must have seen a different film!!
Curapedi
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Scarlet
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
BA_Harrison
Based on the steamy best-seller by Jackie Collins, The Stud stars the author's older sister Joan as Fontaine Khaled, middle-aged wife of a wealthy businessman, who spends her time splashing her hubby's cash and screwing stud Tony Blake (Oliver Tobias), manager of her successful nightclub. Blake has bigger plans though: he intends to open his own happening establishment, steal Fontaine's clientele, and make off with her sexy step-daughter Alex (Emma Jacobs).An X-rated slice of disco-era smut, The Stud is pure '70s trash, with an asinine plot and wooden performances, but it was still a massive success, largely thanks to the nudity and nookie, with Joan baring all for the camera and being all kinds of naughty in an effort revive her flagging movie career. Curious crowds couldn't get enough.These days, The Stud is a dinosaur of a movie (although some might call it a 'time capsule'), but its tacky disco setting, silly melodrama and carefree attitude to casual sex are guaranteed to provide a good time for fans of camp cinema.Those who are watching purely to see Joan getting jiggy are treated to a spot of elevator sex that sees Tobias going down on the actress before going up, and an infamous orgy scene set in an opulent health spa which sees a buck naked Collins on a sex swing.As well as regular rumpy pumpy, the film also features a great soundtrack, with such acts as 10cc, Hot Chocolate, The Sweet, K.C. & The Sunshine Band and Odyssey accompanying the heaving dance floor scenes that make up a large part of the runtime.6.5/10, rounded up to 7 for the bittersweet ending in which Tony is left jobless, womanless, beaten and bloody, but relieved to be free of the rat race.
davefrankfort
From reading the reviews on here they seem to be a mixed bag, too many people on here who post reviews are trying to hard to be next Barry Norman, The Stud is the classic cult movie, yes it's outlandish in parts, majority of cast turn up and deliver a performance, even the bad actors try, it's not meant to be Shakespeare, it's what it's meant to be an easy watch, from a bygone era, a time capsule of 1970s London, Collins is on top form, Mark Burns "Leonard Grant" almost steals the movie with surreal bits of wisdom, Doug Fisher delivers the best lines, yes it's seedy, dark,silly in parts but it's a classic.
MARIO GAUCI
The R2 double-feature DVD of this film, along with its sequel THE BITCH (1979; see below), had been available for rental through my local DVD outlet for quite some time - and, though I had been tempted to check it out time and again, I finally took the plunge after having watched star Joan Collins in another sexy role in ...CAN HEIRONYMUS MERKIN EVER FORGET MERCY HUMPPE AND FIND TRUE HAPPINESS? (1969).Based on the lurid novel by Joan's own sister, Jackie Collins, the film isn't for anyone looking for quality cinema; cheesy, sleazy trash - set in London and accompanied by a dated disco soundtrack - that's filled with copious but unerotic nudity. Collins, at least, is clearly having fun with her bitchy role; Oliver Tobias is the would-be stud who finds himself to be merely a pawn in her game (and who, predictably, finds real love in the arms of Collins' teenage step-daughter); while Walter Gotell (a regular in the James Bond extravaganzas) is her betrayed but vengeful diplomat husband.
Lubin Odana
Like the follow-up to "The Bitch", this is a Joan/Jackie Collins vehicle which represents an epiphany of late 1970s excess and trash.We are shown a group of privileged amoral silly people in a way which attempts to "glamorise" their vapid "shopping and shagging" lifestyle. So meet the improbably named "Khalid Fontaine" (Collins playing a pre-Alexis Alexis), owner of nightclub "The Hobo", possibly the tackiest dive to ever soil the streets of London, England. Oliver Tobias plays the titular lead, an anti-hero who we recoil from.Every scene is more excessive and ridiculous than the one before. The dialogue is wooden and childish. Collins' delivery is at its worst ever (apart from the Bitch), and that's saying something. She feels compelled to pronounce the last word of every line as if it's written in CAPS LOCK, bold case and italics in the script.The drugged-out swimming pool scene is horrific. Did we have to see Joan's chest? The whole film is like an over-imaginative, over-sexed 14 year old's fantasy of the way that rich people must live.See it! See it now!
