LT Fish Likes Flicks: Lemonade Joe - Czech DVD Review

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.

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058275/...
IMFDB: http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Lemonade_Joe
Review Link for Czech DVD: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDRevi...

Review Links for US DVD (good reading, but avoid the disc): https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/21656...
https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/21691...

Amazon Prime link!: https://www.amazon.com/Lemonade-Joe-K...


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.