Before sitting down to watch Lemonade Joe, you really have to be in the right frame of mind to fully appreciate this film in all of its eccentric quirkiness. And, it would also help if you were something of a fan of Hollywood, B-Westerns from the 1940's, as well.
Opening with one of the absolute, best, over-the-top, bar-room brawl scenes that I have ever seen in any Western, I found Lemonade Joe's cartoon-ish surrealism to be very entertaining, for the most part.
This 1964 Western from Czechoslovakia was, of course, a total spoof of the genre. And, from my point of view, it certainly hit its intended mark more often than it missed.
Featuring some really outlandish stunts (worthy of The Three Stooges), lots of interesting camera-work, and a non-stop barrage of exaggerated characters (including a nasty villain named Hogofogo), Lemonade Joe (set in 1885 in the lawless town of Stetson, Arizona) was very competently directed by Czech film-maker, Oldrich Lipsky, who obviously must have watched a helluva lot of Hollywood B-Westerns in his youth.
Opening with one of the absolute, best, over-the-top, bar-room brawl scenes that I have ever seen in any Western, I found Lemonade Joe's cartoon-ish surrealism to be very entertaining, for the most part.
This 1964 Western from Czechoslovakia was, of course, a total spoof of the genre. And, from my point of view, it certainly hit its intended mark more often than it missed.
Featuring some really outlandish stunts (worthy of The Three Stooges), lots of interesting camera-work, and a non-stop barrage of exaggerated characters (including a nasty villain named Hogofogo), Lemonade Joe (set in 1885 in the lawless town of Stetson, Arizona) was very competently directed by Czech film-maker, Oldrich Lipsky, who obviously must have watched a helluva lot of Hollywood B-Westerns in his youth.