Limonadovy Joe
Czechoslovakia,
1964, 84 min
Shown in 1964
CREDITS
- dir
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Oldrich Lipsky
- prod
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Jaroslav Jílovec
- scr
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Jiri Brdecka, Oldrich Lipsky
- cam
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Vladimír Novotny
- editor
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Miroslav Hájek, Jitka Sulcová
- mus
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Vlastimil Hála, Jan Rychlík
- cast
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Karel Fiala, Milos Kopecky, Olga Schoberová, Kveta Fialová, Rudolf Deyl, Josef Hlinomaz, Waldemar Matuska, Karel Effa
- prod co
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Ceskoslovensky Statni Film
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COMMENTS
Shown Opening Night 1964. Oldrich Lipsky and Olga Schoberova in person. Projection was notoriously screwed up with the wrong film shown, then the right film shown with the reels out of order.
OTHER
The Czechs resemble the Americans in more ways than one: They have a similar sense of humor and a comparable sense of the ridiculous. Therefore it should not be surprising that they have taken a classic American folk form, the Western, and shot it full of very funny holes. This is the story of a folk hero named Lemonade Joe whose exploits would astonish those other great cowboys riding the purple sage for all eternity: Broncho Billy Anderson and William S. Hart. Since our American Westerns are such classic forms, in which Virtue always triumphs over Vice, it should not be surprising if the moral of Lemonade Joe turns out to be somewhat different. But it is all in the spirit of good clean fun and you will be astonished at the accuracy with which the Czechs have reproduced the American Western milieu of the 19th century.
—Alvah Bessie
FACTOID #85
In 1996, Harvey Keitel was the first recipient of the Peter J. Owens Award, honoring “brilliance, independence and honesty” in acting. Honest he was. During the clip show at his tribute Keitel, unhappy with one of the clips, began waving his arms and shouting until the screen went black. The screen lit up with a new clip and the tribute continued.
