Underplayed Gems

West and Soda (1965)

West and Soda poster
Directed by
Bruno Bozzetto
Genre
comedy film, Spaghetti Western
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
10
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 68 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

It is a parody of American Westerns. It follows a cowboy in a comedic animated adventure.

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What happens

West and Soda (also known as The West Way Out) is a 1965 Italian animated Western comedy film directed by Bruno Bozzetto. It is a parody of the traditional American Western. In an interview, Bozzetto claimed to have invented the Spaghetti Western genre with this film, an achievement usually attributed to Sergio Leone with his A Fistful of Dollars which was released the year before, but whose development started later and was faster than the traditionally animated West and Soda. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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