Both films were made for a relatively small sum but were highly profitable at the box office, and were among the first successes in the emerging home video market of the early 1980s.

While she still leads an extravagant jetset lifestyle and did get a rather hefty divorce settlement, she no longer has the financial security of being a billionaire's wife and her once-successful London nightclub, "Hobo", is now failing due to a newer club taking away most of the former patrons.

Still in debt to the mafia, Nico is instructed by local gangland boss Thrush Feathers to ensure that Plato loses the race.

Although some of these were existing hits, several were written especially for the film, including the Olympic Runners' title track, "Pour Your Little Heart Out" by The Drifters, "Dancing On The Edge Of A Heartache" by The Hunters, "I Feel Lucky Tonight" by Linda Lewis and The Stylistics, "Music You Are" by George Chandler, and "Standing In The Shadows Of Love" by Deborah Washington.

[4] It opened to the public the following day and finished second at the London box office behind Alien, grossing £30,723 from five cinemas in its first week.

"[9] Although both The Stud and The Bitch were generally panned by critics and viewed as being little more than softcore porn,[10] they were nevertheless both commercial successes and helped to revive Joan Collins' flagging career.

Her performances as the insatiable "rich bitch" Fontaine Khaled later attracted the attention of Aaron Spelling and Esther and Richard Shapiro when they were looking for an actress to play the part of Alexis Carrington in their TV series Dynasty.

[citation needed] Due to its erotic adult content, the film was banned from local cinema screens by Tameside Council (near Manchester in England) at the time of its release.