West and Soda

West and Soda
2006 DVD cover
Directed byBruno Bozzetto
Written byBruno Bozzetto
Attilio Giovannini
Produced byBruno Bozzetto
StarringNando Gazzolo
Vittoria Febbi
Carlo Romano
CinematographyLuciano Marzetti
Roberto Scarpa
Music byGiampiero Boneschi
Production
company
Cineriz
Release date
  • 1 October 1965 (1965-10-01) (Italy)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

West and soda (also known as The West Way Out) is a 1965 Italian animated Western comedy film directed by Bruno Bozzetto. It is a parody of the traditional American Western.

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.