• 30 April 2022
    Warning: Spoilers
    I knew about this film because of its lead actress, I knew she took her clothes off and it contained a fair amount of other nudity and sex, and I knew about the sequel, The B****, despite its low ratings I gave it a chance, based on the book by Jackie Collins, Joan's sister. Basically, in London, Tony Blake (Oliver Tobias) (the "Stud" of the title) is an ordinary good-looking guy looking for work and living carefree and spending time with women when he feels like it. One night he goes to the popular nightclub The Hobo and meets club owner Fontaine Khaled (Dame Joan Collins). Fontaine is the wife of wealthy Arab businessman Benjamin Khaled (Walter Gotell) and spends her husband's money on her club and partying. She is attracted to Tony and hires him as her manager. One night, whilst in a private elevator, she starts kissing him and undressing, and they end up having sex there and then. After some time, it becomes apparent that Fontaine is a nymphomaniac, and Tony's job security is dependent on his satisfying her demands. Soon he loses interest in her, as she treats him like a plaything, but his attempts to escape her clutches seem fruitless. When he gets the chance, he turns his attention to her young stepdaughter Alexandra "Alex" (Emma Jacobs), but he finds himself back in Fontaine's grasp. Tony is invited by Fontaine's friend Leonard Grant (Mark Burns) to a private getaway in Paris, France. There in luxurious decadent surroundings, Tony is surrounded with naked nymphs ready to fulfil his every wish. Tony feels uncomfortable having to watch Fontaine engage in intercourse whilst swinging on a flowery swing above the swimming pool. Then Grant tries being intimate with him, this finally pushes Tony to snap. He angrily leaves the place, having reached the depths of corruption and Fontaine's depravity. But things only get worse when it turns out Alexandra used Tony to get back at Fontaine after she discovered a video tape of Fontaine and Tony having sex in the private elevator. Alexandra eventually shows her father this CCTV footage of his wife cheating on him, and he confronts her about the affair. In the end, Fontaine dumps Tony and is divorced by her husband for adultery. Also starring Sue Lloyd as Vanessa Grant, Natalie Ogle as Maddy, Felicity Buirski as Deborah, Doug Fisher as Sammy, Tony Allyn as Hal, GoldenEye's Constantin De Goguel as Lord Newton, and Chris Jagger (Mick's brother) as Rock Star. Collins has her moments when she is the diva, it was three years she became globally famous as Alexis Colby in Dynasty, and she is relatively alright being sultry and promiscuous, as for Tobias, as her toy boy, he is annoying being a wet blanket, and his performance is just unmemorable. The makers at the time proposed this as a British alternative to Saturday Night Fever, it certainly includes a fantastic soundtrack of 70s disco classics, including "Let's Go Disco" by The Real Thing, "Love Is the Drug" by Roxy Music, "Every One's a Winner" by Hot Chocolate, "I'm Not in Love" by 10cc, "Native New Yorker" by Odyssey, "Car Wash" by Rose Royce, "That's the Way (I Like It)" by KC & The Sunshine Band, and "Silver Lady" by David Soul. The biggest problem with this film is, it is so dated(!), the disco scenes are cringing (despite the great music) and don't add anything to the main plot, the sex scenes are not even worthy of a softcore porn film, the swimming pool sex swing sequence may be memorable, but it's equally silly, and any attempts at trying to put a story together are pointless, a terrible only just watchable drama. It was number 100 on The 100 Greatest Sexy Moments. Adequate!