Lemonade Joe (1964): Cast & Plot

In the frontier town of Stetson City in 1885, business is booming at the Trigger Whisky Saloon. Tornado Lou, Květa Fialová, belts out a sultry ballad that draws in the patrons, while the saloon’s owner, Doug Badman, Rudolf Princ, tries in vain to win her attention. Two evangelists, Ezra Goodman, Bohuš Záhorský, and his daughter Winnifred, Olga Schoberová, step into the bar to drum up interest in their temperance movement, but the hard-drinking cowboys aren’t listening. Into this clash of saloon culture and reform bursts a stranger: Lemonade Joe, Karel Fiala, a lone cowboy who sings the praises of Kolaloka, a non-alcoholic soft drink (the Czech word for lemon soda, limonáda’s playful twist). Joe’s sharp gunplay and self-assured charm quickly convince the crowd to embrace teetotalism.