LT Fish Likes Flicks: Lemonade Joe - Czech DVD Review

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My review of the entertaining retro-western - 1964’s “Lemonade Joe” or The Horse Opera (released in the US in 1967).
Written and directed by Oldrich Lipsky
Starring: Karel Fiala as the titular “Lemonade Joe”
Rudolf Deyl as local gangster Doug Badman
Milos Kopecky as Doug’s fellow villain Horace Badman aka Hogofogo Kveta Fialova as the dance-hall star Tornado Lou
and Olga Schoberova as the prohibitionist Winnifred Goodman.
Additional thoughts that always come too late to make it into the audio cut - in retrospect, one of the most glaring omissions in this movie - compared to essentially any other western - is the complete lack of religious references. Yes, there are a couple crosses in the cemetery, but there’s no church or mission or parson or padre, and the prohibitionists are strictly anti-liquor with no reference to saving the souls of the lost - an otherwise ubiquitous characterization in any similar characters in other films - not least the contemporary spaghetti westerns. Even Winnifred’s father Ezra who would normally be the parson-type is simply a merchant running a competing saloon - stocking only kolaloka - strictly a commercial enterprise.
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I do not own any of the clips/images shown - Copyright Filmové studio Barrandov, Filmexport Home Video s.r.o., etc - used for fair use and critique.

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21 сен 2024

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Комментарии : 15

@omarvaldes5822 2 года назад

I saw the movie in Cuba in 1964 with Spanish subtitles. Now I have it on DVD with English subtitles.

@paulocosta4744 6 лет назад

I remember seeing a German western TV series when I was little, and it was ridiculous. But this... this looks like comedy gold. I can't tell if it's intentional or not, but it's definitely funny.

@lcdrfish8633 6 лет назад

This is definitely a comedy. The actors/actresses are all excellent in their roles and play it great with amazing timing - but the subtitles do give away a few of the punchlines a little early sometimes.

@Posiman 5 лет назад

It is an intentional parody. A comedy classic here in Czech Republic. Not only a parody of Westerns but also a loving parody of American capitalism, consumerism, branding and advertising. Not hateful though (as in anti-American propaganda sense), it was created in the 60s when reformist communists took over the party, alleviated the censorship and granted filmmakers huge freedoms. The optimism of the era seeps through the movie everywhere.

@ariaden 3 месяца назад

Great jokes, though I bet much of them get lost in translation. But also great music!

@martinhroch344 3 года назад

In the description of the video, you mention the strange lack of religious imagery and ideas that would certainly be present in the Old West and in most western movies, they are. The reason for this is that this film was made in 1964, during the Communist totality in Czechoslovakia. Communists were actively trying to purge religion from the public life, because any spiritual or supernatural beliefs were seen as a threat and a temptation for the people to stray from serving the state and the government. So things like Ezra being simply a soda salesman instead of a parson is probably a product of censorship to make it more "down to earth".

@hes_alive Год назад

Religion IS the opium of the masses though.

@bobroland 6 лет назад

So wonderfully bat-s#it insane! I'm changing my name to Bob Badman!

@Osc1llateW1ldly Год назад

it's Doug Badman no?

@reio4641 Год назад

@@Osc1llateW1ldly this guy's name is Bob, he's just taking the last name

@Osc1llateW1ldly Год назад

@@reio4641 ok got it

@davidmartin5018 4 года назад

Love it

@MuddahFukkah 2 года назад

When I was a kid I really did not like the movie because I thought its creators meant to create a serious western movie which was rather ridiculous in my eyes. Only later on when I was older I could appreciate the humor in it and I understood it was meant to be parody of cowboy western movies... Too bad some jokes can be only understood by czechoslovak audience. This movie is regarded as one of many czechoslovak cult movies of that era (1960s) that everyone in Czechoslovakia knows and loves. 1960s are generally regarded as golden era of czechoslovak cinematography and movies of that era often had hidden anti-communist messages. Scripts were top notch and actors' performance as well. Too bad only some of those movies found their way behind the Iron curtain to the West.