Lemonade Joe

Limonádový Joe
Limonádový Joe
Directed by	Oldřich Lipský
Written by	Jiří Brdečka; Oldřich Lipský;
Produced by	Jaroslav Jílovec
Starring	Karel Fiala; Miloš Kopecký; Květa Fialová; Olga Schoberová;
Music by	Jan Rychlík; Vlastimil Hála;
Production; companies	Bratri v Triku; Kratky Film Praha; Barrandov Studios (live action)
Distributed by	Ústřední Půjčovna Filmů v Praze; Allied Artists Pictures Corporation (US release);
Release dates	August 28, 1964 (East Germany); October 1964 (Czechoslovakia);
Running time	99 minutes
Country	Czechoslovakia
Language	Czech

Lemonade Joe, or the Horse Opera (Czech: Limonádový Joe aneb Koňská opera) is a 1964 Czechoslovak musical comedy film, directed by Oldřich Lipský and written by Jiří Brdečka, based on his novel and stage play.

A parody of the American Western, the film centers on a clean-living, soft-drink-selling gunfighter who takes on a town full of whiskey-swilling cowboys. The name of the eponymous hero is a pun, since the Czech word for a soft drink, limonáda, can also be used figuratively in reference to a cheap, sentimental love-story.

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