The Very Best of Lemon Popsicle

Lemon Popsicle is an Israeli film directed by Boaz Davidson and released in 1978. It has since acquired cult status and spawned eight sequels, the last released in 1988. Lemon Popsicle was an immediate hit in Israel, selling over one and a quarter million tickets by the end of the year and grossing over 12.5 million Israeli lira. A third of its budget of three million Israeli lira, a little less than one million pounds, was used to secure the rights to include classic songs from the Fifties in the soundtrack. As is so often the case, succeeding sequels saw a tail-off in both quality of production and box-office returns. There was, however, no reduction in the quality of the classic songs selected for the soundtracks, and many of these tracks are included here.