Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales

Some Day Your Prince Will Come. A lusty, rowdy spoof of all your favorite fairy tales!

R 1978 · 82 min · ★ 6.1 · Adventure, Comedy, Romance

On his twenty-first birthday, the Prince goes on a quest that takes him across the land searching for the one woman that gets him sexually excited, Princess Sleeping Beauty.

Directed by Harry Hurwitz · Written by Frank Ray Perilli

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