Carry On Cowboy

PLOT

Outlaw Johnny Finger, better known as The Rumpo Kid (Sid James), rides into the frontier town of Stodge City, and immediately guns down three complete strangers, orders alcohol at the saloon—horrifying Judge Burke (Kenneth Williams), the teetotal Mayor of Stodge City—and kills the town's sheriff, 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) 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 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

Sid James as Johnny Finger/The Rumpo Kid

Kenneth Williams as Judge Burke

Jim Dale as Marshal P. Knutt

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 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 as Blacksmith

Larry Cross as Perkins

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)

Eric Rogers as Pianist (uncredited)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

the eleventh in the series of 31 Carry On films (1958–1992).

It was the first film to feature series regulars Peter Butterworth and Bernard Bresslaw