The Stud
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The Stud is a 1978 film starring Joan Collins and Oliver Tobias. Based on the novel by Jackie Collins.
Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, Hobo, and partying. She hires a manager, Tony, to run her club, but it is understood that his job security is dependent on him satisfying her nymphomaniac demands. Tony loses interest in Fontaine, and turns his attention to her young step daughter, who uses him to get back at Fontaine for cheating on her father. Fontaine then dumps Tony. At the end of the film she is divorced by her husband for adultery. The film featured a famous pool orgy scene which was supposed to be set in Paris but was actually filmed in a health club in Chiswick. In one clip she was seen naked on a swing and the film was banned or cut in may countries. Like all of Jackie Collins books there is a moral to the story in the sense that people who behave badly usually come to a bad end.
The film was very successful, but the sequel, The Bitch, filmed in 1979 proved to be an even bigger hit. Oliver Tobias later claimed that his typecasting in the film ruined his career.
[edit] References
Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema by Simon Sheridan (Reynolds & Hearn Books) (third edition) 2007.
