Quentin Masters

Hyper-sleazy, trash “classic” that hides a story of decadent hubris, working class exploitation and upper class amorality, played out against a great disco soundtrack. Joan Collins is the improbably named rich-bitch Fontaine Khaled who spends her days enjoying sexual trysts and comparing sex notes with her girlfriend Vanessa (Sue Lloyd). At night they becoming disco queens, flitting from club to club and exploiting all and sundry including working class “stud” Tony Blake (Oliver Tobias), the hunkiest of a group of gigolos haunting the “The Hobo”, a sleazy disco night club. Written by the queen of trash Jackie Collins from her own novel, the film piles one ridiculous and excessive scene on top of another, while the cast deliver some compellingly bad dialogue. My favourite line: “they ask for comics and a bag of sweets and you give 'em Penthouse and amyl nitrate". Director Quentin Masters directs with zero subtlety giving everything a shady look and a seedy feel. There are some scenes of classic sleaze - the bizarre, drugged-out, health spa / swimming pool orgy possibly being the “best”. Joan Collins is on great bitchy form as the dominant, manipulative adulteress who happily loses her clothes as the occasion requires. Oliver Tobias doesn’t really have much to do, but he’s still good as the working class lad on the make. The score by Biddu and performed by The Biddu Orchestra adds to the tackiness of the whole thing - the theme song “The Stud” is a lunatic slice of disco sleaze. The soundtrack is made up of some classic Brutish faux-disco jams and makes time for, amongst others: Tina Charles, Linda Lewis, Hot Chocolate, Leo Sayer, 10CC, The Sweet, Odyssey, Baccara, Rose Royce and The Real Thing. Overall “The Stud” is gloriously bad and gloriously entertaining - it is cheap, sleazy, nasty and shallow. A British trash classic.… (más)