One of the funniest and best of the Carry On series, as ever the team picking up on a popular genre of the day in this case, obviously Westerns, for a laugh-a-minute spoof. "The Magnificient Seven" had recently been a big success and no doubt Messrs Rogers and Thomas took some inspiration from it.
With almost the perfect Carry On cast present and correct (only Barbara Windsor and Kenneth Connor are absent) and a script full of gags, of single, double and occasionally triple entendre, you're never far away from the next rib-tickling joke or situation.
Jim Dale is the improbably named Marshall P Knutt, the innocent sanitation engineer accidentally sent to clean up Stodge City but not in the way he planned. Sid James is in great form in one of his best roles as the gun-totin' Rumpo Kid, while there's the usual strong support from Joan Sims obviously relishing her part as the Kid's jealous moll, Charles Hawtrey as the weedy hooch-loving Indian chief and Kenneth Williams, just about the only cast member to adopt an accent as the inept mayor, while future regulars Angela Douglas, Peter Butterworth and Bernard Bresslaw all make their series debuts. The film nods to almost every Western cliche together seen, to a Red Indian attack on the wagons, a barroom brawk, a catfight between Sims and Douglas and a very funny showdown scene at the end when Dale outwits the Kid and his gang. Naturally the humour is way out west as far as today's P.C. standards are concerned with sexism probably the most abused "-ism" on display, but it's all harmless fun and very amusing. I'll certainly doff my Stetson hat to it.
With almost the perfect Carry On cast present and correct (only Barbara Windsor and Kenneth Connor are absent) and a script full of gags, of single, double and occasionally triple entendre, you're never far away from the next rib-tickling joke or situation.
Jim Dale is the improbably named Marshall P Knutt, the innocent sanitation engineer accidentally sent to clean up Stodge City but not in the way he planned. Sid James is in great form in one of his best roles as the gun-totin' Rumpo Kid, while there's the usual strong support from Joan Sims obviously relishing her part as the Kid's jealous moll, Charles Hawtrey as the weedy hooch-loving Indian chief and Kenneth Williams, just about the only cast member to adopt an accent as the inept mayor, while future regulars Angela Douglas, Peter Butterworth and Bernard Bresslaw all make their series debuts. The film nods to almost every Western cliche together seen, to a Red Indian attack on the wagons, a barroom brawk, a catfight between Sims and Douglas and a very funny showdown scene at the end when Dale outwits the Kid and his gang. Naturally the humour is way out west as far as today's P.C. standards are concerned with sexism probably the most abused "-ism" on display, but it's all harmless fun and very amusing. I'll certainly doff my Stetson hat to it.