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{{Infobox film
| name = Carry On Cowboy
| director = [[Gerald Thomas]]
| image = Carry On Cowboy FilmPoster.jpeg
| caption = Original UK quad poster
| producer = [[Peter Rogers]]
| writer = [[Talbot Rothwell]]
| starring = [[Sid James|Sidney James]] [[Kenneth Williams]] [[Jim Dale]] [[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)|Charles Hawtrey]] [[Joan Sims]] [[Angela Douglas]]
| music = [[Eric Rogers (composer)|Eric Rogers]]
| cinematography = [[Alan Hume]]
| editing = Rod Keys
| studio = [[Anglo-Amalgamated]] Peter Rogers Productions
| distributor = [[Associated British Picture Corporation|Warner-Pathé]]
| released = 26 November 1965
| runtime = 93 mins
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget = £195,000
}}
'''''Carry On Cowboy''''' is a 1965 [[British comedy]] [[Western (genre)|Western]] film, the eleventh in the [[Carry On (film series)|series of 31 ''Carry On'' films]] (1958–1992).<ref name=allmovie>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/carry-on-cowboy-v8365|title=Carry On Cowboy (1965) - Gerald Thomas | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie|via=www.allmovie.com}}</ref> It was the first film to feature series regulars [[Peter Butterworth]] and [[Bernard Bresslaw]]. Series regulars [[Sid James]], [[Kenneth Williams]], [[Jim Dale]], [[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)|Charles Hawtrey]] and [[Joan Sims]] all feature, and [[Angela Douglas]] makes the first of her four appearances in the series.<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a7344a7|title=Carry On Cowboy (1966)|website=BFI}}</ref> Kenneth Williams, usually highly critical of all the ''Carry on'' films he appeared in, called the film "a success on every level" in his diary, taking pride in its humour and pathos.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Williams, Kenneth, 1926-1988.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59883309|title=The Kenneth Williams diaries|date=1993|publisher=HarperCollins|others=Davies, Russell.|isbn=0-00-255023-7|location=London|oclc=59883309}}</ref>

==Plot==
Outlaw Johnny Finger, better known as The Rumpo Kid ([[Sid James]]), rides into the frontier town of [[Dodge City|Stodge City]], and immediately guns down three complete strangers, orders alcohol at the saloon—horrifying Judge Burke ([[Kenneth Williams]]), the [[Teetotalism|teetotal]] Mayor of Stodge City—and kills the town's sheriff, [[Wyatt Earp|Albert Earp]] ([[Jon Pertwee]]). Rumpo then takes over the saloon, courting its former owner, the sharp-shooting Belle ([[Joan Sims]]), and turns the town into a base for thieves and cattle-rustlers.

In Washington DC, English "sanitation engineer first class" Marshal P. Knutt ([[Jim Dale]]) arrives in America in the hope of revolutionising the American [[sewerage]] system. He accidentally walks into the office of the Commissioner, thinking it to be the Public Works Department, and is mistaken for a US Peace [[Marshal]], and is promptly sent out to Stodge City.

The Rumpo Kid hears of the new Marshal, and tries all he can to kill the Marshal without being caught, including sending out a pack of Indians, led by their Chief Big Heap ([[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)|Charles Hawtrey]]) and hanging the Marshal after framing him for cattle rustling. Knutt is saved by the prowess of [[Annie Oakley]] ([[Angela Douglas]]), who has arrived in Stodge to avenge Earp's death and has taken a liking to Knutt.

Eventually, Knutt runs Rumpo out of town, but once Rumpo discovers that Knutt really is a sanitary engineer and not the Peace Marshal he once thought, he swears revenge, returning to Stodge City for [[High Noon|a showdown at high noon]]. Knutt conceals himself from Rumpo's gang in drainage tunnels beneath the main street, emerging momentarily from manholes to pick them off one by one. He does not capture Rumpo, who escapes town with the aid of Belle.

==Cast==
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*[[Sid James]] as Johnny Finger/The Rumpo Kid
*[[Kenneth Williams]] as Judge Burke
*[[Jim Dale]] as Marshal P. Knutt
*[[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)|Charles Hawtrey]] as Big Heap
*[[Joan Sims]] as Belle Armitage
*[[Peter Butterworth]] as Doc
*[[Bernard Bresslaw]] as Little Heap
*[[Angela Douglas]] as [[Annie Oakley]]
*[[Jon Pertwee]] as Sheriff Albert Earp
*[[Percy Herbert (actor)|Percy Herbert]] as Charlie
*[[Sydney Bromley]] as Sam Houston
*[[Edina Ronay]] as Delores
*[[Lionel Murton]] as Clerk
*[[Peter Gilmore]] as Curly
*[[Davy Kaye]] as Josh
*[[Alan Gifford]] as Commissioner
*[[Brian Rawlinson]] as Stagecoach guard
*[[Michael Nightingale]] as Bank manager
*[[Simon Cain]] as Short
*[[Sally Douglas]] as Kitikata
*Cal McCord as Mex
*Garry Colleano as Slim
*[[Arthur Lovegrove]] as Old cowhand
*[[Margaret Nolan]] as Miss Jones
*[[Tom Clegg (actor)|Tom Clegg]] as Blacksmith
*Larry Cross as Perkins
*[[Brian Coburn (actor)|Brian Coburn]] as Trapper
*Ballet Montparnasse as Dancing girls
*Hal Galili as Cowhand (uncredited)
*Norman Stanley as Drunk (uncredited)
*Carmen Dene as Mexican girl (uncredited)
*[[Andrea Allan]] as Minnie (uncredited)
*Vicki Smith as Polly (uncredited)
*Audrey Wilson as Jane (uncredited)
*Donna White as Jenny (uncredited)
*Lisa Thomas as Sally (uncredited)
*Gloria Best as Bridget (uncredited)
*George Mossman as Stagecoach driver (uncredited)
*[[Richard O'Brien]] as Rider (uncredited) <ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-11-05|title=Rocky Horror's Richard O'Brien: 'I should be dead. I've had an excessive lifestyle'|url=http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/nov/05/richard-obrien-interview-rocky-horror-trans-crack-stroke-70s|access-date=2020-11-06|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref>
*[[Eric Rogers (composer)|Eric Rogers]] as Pianist (uncredited)
}}

==Crew==
*Screenplay – [[Talbot Rothwell]]
*Music – [[Eric Rogers (composer)|Eric Rogers]]
*Songs – [[Eric Rogers (composer)|Eric Rogers]] & Alan Rogers
*Associate Producer – [[Frank Bevis]]
*Art Director – [[Bert Davey]]
*Editor – Rod Keys
*Director of Photography – [[Alan Hume]]
*Camera Operator – Godfrey Godar
*Assistant Director – Peter Bolton
*Unit Manager – Ron Jackson
*Make-up – Geoffrey Rodway
*Sound Editor – Jim Groom
*Sound Recordists – Robert T MacPhee & Ken Barker
*Hairdressing – Stella Rivers
*Costume Designer – Cynthia Tingey
*Assistant Editor – Jack Gardner
*Horse Master – Jeremy Taylor
*Continuity – Gladys Goldsmith
*Producer – [[Peter Rogers]]
*Director – [[Gerald Thomas]]

==Production ==
The film was made between 12 July and 3 September 1965. Interiors were done at [[Pinewood Studios]], Buckinghamshire<ref name=bfi/> while exteriors were shot on [[Chobham Common]], Surrey<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reelstreets.com/films/carry-on-cowboy/|title=Reelstreets | Carry On Cowboy|website=www.reelstreets.com}}</ref>
and at [[Black Park]], Fulmer, Buckinghamshire.

==Soundtrack==
''Carry on Cowboy'' was the first film in the series to have a sung main titles theme.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/466186/|title=BFI Screenonline: Carry On Cowboy (1965)|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> Douglas has a saloon bar scene in which she sings "This is the Night for Love".

==Critical reception==
Writing in 1966, ''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' opined "there are some quite clever and amusing ideas, but an even heavier than usual reliance on outrageous puns and not particularly subtle [[double entendres]]. This, in fact, is the nearest-the-knuckle of the series, and some of the gags make the [[History of British film certificates#1951–1970|"A" certificate]] eminently reasonable".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/media/mfb/1009415/index.html|title=Monthly Film Bulletin review|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> More recently, [[Allmovie]] called the film "one of the best of the long-running Carry On series."<ref name=allmovie/>

==Notes==
;Citations
{{Reflist}}

;Bibliography
*{{Cite book |last=Davidson |first=Andy |title=Carry On Confidential |publisher=Miwk |location=London |year=2012 |isbn=978-1908630018 }}
*{{Cite book |last=Sheridan |first=Simon |title=Keeping the British End Up – Four Decades of Saucy Cinema |publisher=Titan Books |location=London |year=2011 |isbn=978-0857682796 }}
*{{Cite book |last=Webber |first=Richard |title=50 Years of Carry On |publisher=Arrow |location=London |year=2009 |isbn=978-0099490074 }}
*{{Cite book |last=Hudis |first=Norman |title=No Laughing Matter |publisher=Apex |location=London |year=2008 |isbn=978-1906358150 }}
*''Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema'' by Simon Sheridan (third edition) (2007) (Reynolds & Hearn Books)
*{{Cite book |last=Ross |first=Robert |title=The Carry On Companion |publisher=Batsford |location=London |year=2002 |isbn=978-0713487718 }}
*{{Cite book |last1=Bright|first1=Morris | last2=Ross |first2=Robert |title=Mr Carry On – The Life & Work of Peter Rogers |publisher=BBC Books |location=London |year=2000 |isbn=978-0563551836 }}
*{{Cite book |last=Rigelsford |first=Adrian |title=Carry On Laughing – a celebration |publisher=Virgin |location=London |year=1996 |isbn=1-85227-554-5 }}
*{{Cite book |last=Hibbin |first=Sally & Nina |title=What a Carry On |publisher=Hamlyn |location=London |year=1988 |isbn=978-0600558194 }}
*{{Cite book |last=Eastaugh |first=Kenneth |title=The Carry On Book |publisher=David & Charles |location=London |year=1978 |isbn=978-0715374030 }}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0059014}}
* {{Rotten-tomatoes|carry_on_cowboy}}
* {{British Comedy Guide|film|carry_on_cowboy}}
*[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/466186 ''Carry on Cowboy''] at the [[British Film Institute]]'s [[Screenonline]]

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