West and Soda

{{Infobox film | name = West and Soda | image = Westandsoda.jpg | caption = 2006 DVD cover | director = [[Bruno Bozzetto]] | producer = Bruno Bozzetto | writer = Bruno Bozzetto<br/>[[Attilio Giovannini]] | starring = [[Nando Gazzolo]]<br>[[Vittoria Febbi]]<br>[[Carlo Romano]] | music = Giampiero Boneschi | cinematography = Luciano Marzetti<br/>Roberto Scarpa | studio = Cineriz | released = {{Film date|1965|10|01|Italy|df=y}} | runtime = 86 minutes | country = Italy | language = Italian | budget = }}

'''''West and Soda''''' (also known as ''The West Way Out'') is a 1965 Italian animated [[Western film|Western]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Bruno Bozzetto]]. It is a parody of the traditional American [[Western (genre)|Western]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0azMCgAAQBAJ&q=Bruno+Bozzetto+mr+rossi&pg=PA216|title=Animation: A World History|isbn=9781317519911|access-date=20 March 2016|last1=Bendazzi|first1=Giannalberto|date=23 October 2015|publisher=CRC Press }}</ref>

In an interview, Bozzetto claimed to have invented the [[Spaghetti Western]] genre with this film, an achievement usually attributed to [[Sergio Leone]] with his ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]'' which was released the year before, but whose development started later and was faster than the traditionally animated ''West and Soda''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Iondini |first=Massimo |date=3 October 2015 |title=Bozzetto: "Così ho inventato lo spaghetti western" |trans-title=Bozzetto: «So I invented spaghetti western» |url=https://www.avvenire.it/agora/pagine/bozzetto-intervista |language=it |work=[[Avvenire]] |location=Milan |access-date=1 October 2019}}</ref>

==Plot== The plot of the film follows the traditional stranger arriving in a small western town. The stranger finds a pretty woman holding out from selling her uniquely green land to the local big shot, who is harassing her in hope of seducing her/buying her land. There is an ongoing mystery about how the stranger got a hold of the gold nugget he possesses, though at the end of the film it is revealed that he found it in a soap box (it is fake).

==Cast== {|class="wikitable" |- !Character !Original !English |- !Johnny |[[Nando Gazzolo]] |rowspan="7"|Unknown |- !Clementine |[[Vittoria Febbi]] |- !The Boss |[[Carlo Romano]] |- !Ursus |[[Luigi Pavese]] |- !Slim |{{ill|Willy Moser|it}} |- !Esmeralda |[[Lydia Simoneschi]] |- !The Boss's Horse |[[Ferruccio Amendola]] |}

==DVD== A [[PAL]] [[DVD region code|R2]] [[DVD]] of the film has been released in Italy. It contains 40 minutes of extra material, including interviews, a completely restored version of the film as well as English subtitles.

==See also== *[[List of animated feature-length films]]

==References== <references/>

==External links== * [http://www.bozzetto.com/ Official website of Bruno Bozzetto Distribution] * {{IMDb title|id=0144681}}

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