Lemonade Joe

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Lemonade Joe ★★ Limonadovy Joe aneb Konska Opera 1964

The Czech New Wave does a broad spoof of the American western complete with good guys in white hats, bad guys in black hats, and a saloon gal with a heart of gold. Doug Badman (Kopecky) runs the Trigger Whiskey Saloon, along with his hotsie singer Tornado Lou (Fialova). The hard-drinking bar flies harass sweet temperance worker Winifred (Schoberova) until clean-living soft drink salesman Lemonade Joe (Fiala) shows up to save the day. Czech with subtitles. 87m/ B VHS, DVD . CZ Milos Kopecky, Karel Fiala, Kveta Fialova, Olga Schoberova; D: Oldrich Lipsky; W: Oldrich Lipsky, Jiri Brdecka; C: Vladimir Novotny; M: Vlastimil Hala, Jan Rychlik.