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.
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.