LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

GusF Is it my imagination or do barkeeps in Westerns always seem to be named Charlie...? Anyway, it's not on the same level as the last two absolutely hilarious films but it's still a very funny parody of the Western genre. I don't know whether, as with "Carry On Cleo", the sets were built for another film but they look almost as the good as the ones used in actual Westerns of the era, as do the costumes. At first, I thought that it would be funnier if the cast had played their roles in their natural accents but the fake American accents add to the fun.As he did in "Carry On Spying", Kenneth Williams plays against his usual type and adopts a wonderfully over the top accent as Sheriff Burke. Charles Hawtrey has less screen time than in the last two films but he excels as Big Heap, a character who, like Julius Caesar and Mark Antony in "Carry On Cleo", works so well partly because he is the polar opposite of depictions of Native American in films of the era. The contrast between his portrayal and that of his deliberately clichéd son Little Heap, played by Bernard Bresslaw, is especially funny. As in several earlier "Carry On" films, Sid James plays the role of the Rumpo Kid fairly straight and is surprisingly menacing at times! Joan Sims gets more to do as Belle than she did as Calpurnia and is as superb as ever. Her best scenes are the ones in which she is trying to seduce Marshall and in which she fights Annie Oakley for him. Jim Dale has its biggest role in the series to date as the meek and mild Marshall P. Knutt, the opposite of his character Horsa from the previous film. Kenneth Connor is absent for the first of eight consecutive films and I suspect that the role of Marshall may have been originally intended for him. Dale has good comic timing but he's no Connor, I'm afraid. The funniest member of the supporting cast in the film is certainly Jon Pertwee as the deaf and blind but well meaning Sheriff Earp. The joke would probably have gotten old fast so it was probably for the best that his appearance was quite brief. Peter Butterworth is the best newcomer on this occasion.

m_pratt Cowboy is an excellent film everyone is top notch. It is a classic there could not be a better western carry on than this. This is the one to start with. Dale is excellent as Marshall P Knutt, as is Angela Douglas as Annie Oakley. Joan Sims is excellent as Belle Armitage the sizzling western women.Charles is great as Big heap as is Bresslaw as little heap.the film is brilliant, this shows that the producers really put the effort in to it and it does show. Sid of course plays the Rumpo kid the outlaw of the area and makes a brilliant job of it.This is one of the finest carry ons the series ever made. The plot of the story is as follows. Stodge City is a rough town out in the middle of the wild west. It is being terrorised by the Rumpo Kid Sid James Marshall P Knutt is being sent to clear up the town and he is a sanitation engineer i will not spoil too much of the film so carry on watching!!

charlescorn Perhaps I have overly fond childhood memories of Carry On movies and now that I'm starting to rediscover them, I'm a bit more critical. That said, many do stand the test of time, but Carry On Cowboy is not one of them.Carry On Cowboy is a film in that category of movie in which: (1) you can't wait for it to end, but (2) it's so unbelievably bad that you assume it has just got to get better at some point, so you continue to watch. Torture!I didn't laugh once. The biggest attempt at a gag in the film seemed to revolve around Jim Dale being clumsy. The occasional example of Dale doing a poor impersonation of Norman Wisdom is bad enough (eg Carry On Doctor), but to repeat it again and again is agony. Towards the end of the movie, when Dale practices shooting a gun, was so painful to watch I half-hoped he would shoot me instead. The only selling points are the great sets and the half-decent American accents of the Carry On gang.

VLeung This is virtually a straight copy of those Bob Hope Westerns like Paleface and something or other Jesse James. Weedy bloke becomes sheriff after case of mistaken identity. With Carry On films, though, there's the Jim Dale rule, which is that the movies Jim Dale stars in are usually sweet, with a bit of a plot, and the ones he doesn't tend to be pre-peak or just terrible, like At Your Convenience or the camply awful Girls, both of which remain fascinating social documents but are genuinely bad films. Cowboy isn't a good film, of course, but it is likeable. There's a great song. Sid James isn't the romantic lead, so you can breathe a sigh of relief and just sit back and enjoy it. Watch without irony - it's not cool to pretend there's another level to this pretty bad but genuinely charming little British film.