Underplayed Gems

Lemonade Joe (1964)

Lemonade Joe poster
Original title
Limonádový Joe aneb Koňská opera
Directed by
Oldřich Lipský
Genre
comedy film, Western film, adventure film, musical film
Country
Czechoslovakia
Runtime
1h 35m
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 72 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A clean-living gunfighter who sells soft drinks arrives in a town where cowboys drink whiskey. He tries to get them to switch to his drink.

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What happens

Lemonade Joe, Or The Horse Opera (Czech: Limonádový Joe Aneb Koňská Opera) is a 1964 Czechoslovak New Wave Western musical parody film directed by Oldřich Lipský and written by Jiří Brdečka, based on his novel and stage play. A parody of the American Western, the film centers on a clean-living, soft-drink-selling gunfighter who takes on a town full of whiskey-swilling cowboys. The name of the eponymous hero is a pun, since the Czech word for a soft drink, limonáda, can also be used figuratively in reference to a cheap, sentimental love-story. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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