Directed by: Michael Pataki
Stars: Cheryl Smith, Yana Nirvana, Marilyn Corwin, Jennifer Stace, Sy Richardson, Brett Smiley
Language: English
Country: Usa | Imdb Info
Description: Cinderella is trapped in the familiar misery of fairy-tale life: a cruel stepmother, two selfish stepsisters, endless chores, and dreams of escape. But this is not the storybook version. In The Other Cinderella, the old tale is rebuilt as a bawdy 1970s musical comedy where every royal tradition has been dragged through a drive-in midnight show.
Across the kingdom, the Prince has a problem of his own. Spoiled, jaded, and bored by ordinary courtship, he refuses to marry unless he can find the one woman who can finally make him feel alive. His desperate parents decide to solve the matter with a royal ball, inviting every willing woman in the land and turning the palace into a glittery, ridiculous playground of lust, music, and bad decisions.
Left behind at home, Cinderella is rescued by a flamboyant Fairy Godmother whose magic is as crooked as it is effective. With a wave of stolen enchantment, she is transformed from household drudge into the mysterious woman of the evening. At the ball, she catches the Prince’s attention so completely that he becomes obsessed with finding her again after she vanishes.
What follows is a shamelessly silly fairy-tale chase, complete with songs, mistaken encounters, royal panic, bedroom farce, and a kingdom-wide search for the one woman who stood out from all the rest. The familiar glass-slipper logic is still there, but the film replaces innocence with camp, romance with raunchy parody, and Disney sweetness with pure 1977 adult-comedy absurdity.
The Other Cinderella is ridiculous by design: a softcore musical fantasy where fairy-tale structure, dirty jokes, funky songs, and counterculture playfulness all collide. Its charm comes from the fact that it never pretends to be respectable. It simply asks what would happen if an old children’s story wandered into an after-dark grindhouse musical and decided to stay there.
Legacy Note:
The Other Cinderella remains one of the stranger adult fairy-tale spoofs of the 1970s, directed by actor-filmmaker Michael Pataki and anchored by the radiant cult presence of Cheryl “Rainbeaux” Smith. Smith gives Cinderella a sweet, wide-eyed quality that helps the film stay playful even when the jokes become outrageous, while Sy Richardson’s Fairy Godmother turns the movie into full camp spectacle.
The film also belongs to a specific moment when adult comedies could still be theatrical, musical, goofy, and strangely elaborate. With original songs by Andrew Belling, bright photography, exaggerated performances, and a knowingly absurd script by Frank Ray Perilli, it feels less like a conventional erotic feature than a naughty fairy-tale revue made for midnight audiences.
Today, its value is mainly as a time capsule: a bizarre intersection of drive-in comedy, softcore parody, fairy-tale revisionism, and Rainbeaux Smith’s cult-film magic. It is dated, messy, and proudly tasteless in places, but also undeniably alive with the anything-goes energy of late-70s exploitation cinema.
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