History Film / CarryOnCowboy

** The stagecoach attack scene references ''Film/{{Stagecoach}}''.

** The stagecoach attack scene references ''Film/Stagecoach''.

** If his greediness hadn't got the better of him (even though it was only over 25 cents, and he's probably a poorly paid mayor/judge), Rumpo would've stayed out of Stodge City and would've never found out that [[spoiler:he was chased out of the town by an English sanitation expert]].

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Just where the hell is Stodge City? The movie doesn't [[ObligatoryJoke state]] what US state the city is located. It appears to be near an area where Native American tribes live in peace. They manage to get information from Washington DC very quickly, which might mean that Stodge City is located in NewEngland (most likely before the states were materialized). But if Rumpo rode from Texas to any of these states, it probably wouldn't have taken him ten days. [[note]]It was highly unlikely that Rumpo was travelling from Texas, though. That was probably just where he was born and raised.[[/note]]

* YouNoTakeCandle: How Little Heap speaks English. His father speaks perfect English, but sometimes relapses back into this trope when he's drunk.

* AccidentalAimingSkills: Sort of invoked with Marshall. When ambushed by Native Americans, Marshall struggles to fire a double-barrel, but bullets seem to be hitting the warriors. It turns out that Annie Oakley is the one firing bullets inside the carriage with pistols that she stored in one of her suitcases.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: When Rumpo overhears Belle talking about Annie Oakley's constant questioning over Earp's death, he immediately marches towards her room, snapping that he hates when "women ask awkward questions", and claims that he'll "have her out on her [[StrawFeminist fat" bottom]]. But the moment he walks in, his mind immediately changes when he discovers that this Annie Oakley is young and attractive (and naked in her bubble bath).
* BerserkButton: Marshal accidentally shoots Big Heap's bottle of whiskey, the chief makes his tribe retreat from the battle in anger.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Annie Oakley carries this around on her sleeve.
* BigGuyLittleGuy: Little Heap (the very large Bernard Bresslaw) and Big Heap (the very slight Charles Hawtrey).

* BlindWithoutEm: Sheriff Albert Earp — although he is not really much better with them on.
* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: Big Heap's tribe.
* {{Brownface}}: Charles Hawtrey as Chief Big Heap, and Bernard Bresslaw as Little Heap.
* TheCameo: Creator/JonPertwee as the soon-murdered Sheriff.
* CatFight: Upon waiting for the Rumpo Kid to storm in the bedroom, Marshall is surprisingly visited by a flirtatious Belle, a distressed Annie and a prostitute that's sent as a distraction by Rumpo. One by one, they hide as the door knocks in fear of the visitor being an angry Rumpo, but they immediately discover another woman in their place, giving them the impression that the other is trying to court Marshall, and sets them off into a three-way catfight.

* ComedicUnderwearExposure: If you look closely, Burke has suspenders hanging over his shoulders on the outside of his waistcoat in one scene, but they're not clipped onto his trousers. You're surprised to find that this trope doesn't happen in the movie.
* {{Cowboy}}: Well, of course.
* CowboyEpisode: The usual Carry On hijinks in TheWildWest.
* CowboysAndIndians: This was attempted to be invoked by Rumpo when the new marshal's coach was arriving into town but fails when Annie's shooting (and Marshal's clumsy attempts) scare the tribe away.
* DaddysGirl: Annie Oakley. The moment she hears of his death (suspecting it to be murder), she boards the next coach to the town he was working at to avenge his death.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Judge Burke picks up the dying Earp at the bottom of the stairs. It isn't as tear-jerking as one expects because the dying Earp can't hear a word of Judge Burke without his hearing aid.
* DopeSlap:
** Annie tries to do this across Belle's face but hits Marshal instead.
** Belle does this across Rumpo's face when he cannot read the signs that she is jealous of his sudden attention to Annie.
* EthicalSlut: Annie flaunts herself at Rumpo after meeting him in order to learn about her father's death. This makes Rumpo admit that he shot him.
* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: We only hear of Rumpo's real name when Charlie the bartender introduces him to the Native American tribe, but for the rest of the movie, Rumpo is never referred to as Johnny Finger.

* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: When the Commissioner is told that the Mayor of Stodge City is needing a peace marshal in the town, he points out that he remembers Burke from when they both met up in law school.

* GrandStaircaseEntrance

** Annie Oakley when she's performing a musical number.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Even after finding out that Rumpo killed her father (even though she tried to kill him, and failed), she still treats him like everyone else.
* HandicappedBadass: Sheriff Earp, who is both visually-impaired and deaf. Even though he is killed minutes after appearing on screen, it's implied that both he (and perhaps Judge Burke) single-handedly began gun control, and lowered crime rates.
* HiddenDepths:
** Annie Oakley's musical number.
** Rumpo supposedly carries around a painting of his aunt Fanny naked (although he might've just called the painting a part of his family heirlooms to distract Burke during his ranting).
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Annie Oakley and her father Sheriff Earp, although these could be InNameOnly.
* HomeAloneAntics: Annie Oakley's trap to kill Rumpo is definitely this. She ties about three guns to the doorknob and handle of a nearby wardrobe and waits behind her bed with two pistols. It fails [[spoiler:and shoots Charlie the bartender instead.]]
-->'''Annie Oakley:''' ''(rushing out of the room to check that [[spoiler:Charlie]] is still alive)'' Oh, I'm terribly sorry! I... I thought you were someone else.

* ImpactSilhouette: On a failed bomb plot to rescue his father, Little Heap is blown up too. The only thing left behind is the shape of his body in the ceiling.
* [[{{Pun}} Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Funnily enough, the movie doesn't refrain from a couple of these, and the trope appears more in this movie than most of the other ''Carry On'' films.
* IronicName: The 6'7 Little Heap, and his smaller father Big Heap.
* TheKeyIsBehindTheLock: Catching Rumpo and his gang trying to kidnap Big Heap, Marshal marches into the prison cell and interrogates them. When he's done, he orders them to get into the prison cell -- not realizing that that's outside. They do, and lock him in.
* [[TheCasanova [=LadyKiller=]]]: The United States County Commissioner, who is seen making out with his secretary when his adviser walks in.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Little Heap is AxCrazy towards the white men whereas his father welcomes them with open arms.
* LovableCoward: Doc and Burke.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Annie Oakley to Marshal Knutt.
* MissKitty: Belle.
* MistakenDeathConfirmation: {{Parodied|Trope}}. Following another encounter with the Rumpo Kid, [[FakeUltimateHero Marshall P Knutt]] collapses and is declared dead by Doc after checking his pulse, only for Marshall to wake up while the undertaker is measuring him for a casket. Mayor Burke immediately calls out Doc, who can't understand what went wrong until he realises that it was his watch that had stopped, not Marshall's heart.
* MistakenForBadass: Knutt's first name is Marshal, which leads him to be mistaken for an actual US Marshal who might be able to help defend the town against the Rumpo Kid.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** Seems to be a common theme with Judge Burke.
*** If he hadn't laughed in the Rumpo's face about a peace marshal being sent to the town from Washington, Rumpo wouldn't be expecting one to turn up, thus creating a plan to try and stop them.
*** If his greediness hadn't got the better of him (even though it was only over 25 cents, and he's probably a poorly paid mayor/judge), Rumpo would've stayed out of Stodge City and would've never found out that [[spoiler:he was chased out of the town by an English trash expert.]]
** Marshal's naivety often allows Rumpo to outwit him.
* NobleSavage: Sent up. Chief Big Heap is not only cleverer than most of the settlers (he clears out a saloon by yelling about a gold strike, and everyone charges out despite not knowing where they're going), but speaks using a posh British accent.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Annie uses this trope to worm her way into finding out who killed her father. (It also plays into the fact that she is [[MenAreStrongWomenArePretty female]] and [[DumbBlonde blonde]].) She pretends that Marshal is the killer of three Native Americans who were trying to attack their carriage because "you wouldn't expect a poor defenseless thing like me to do something like that." Naturally, everyone is amazed when she shoots Marshal out of his prison cell.
* PajamaCladHero: Marshal briefly, when the villains blow up the jail entrance and lock him inside.

* PeriodPiece
* PermaStubble: Most of Rumpo's gang have light five o'clock shadows.

** Judge Burke, whose descendants were Wright-Burkes. [[note]]Knowing the history of BritishEnglish/CockneyRhymingSlang, Judge's family is full of CountryMatters.[[/note]]

-->'''Belle:''' [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything That's the last time you come in here and ask me to do you any favors.]]
* TheRustler: Rumpo's gang spend most of the night sneaking out to fields and stealing bulls from sleeping farmers.

* SexySecretary: Miss Jones, the US Commissioner's secretary, who is also a seemingly-DumbBlonde with a [[SimpletonVoice lisp]].
* TheSheriff: Sherrif Earp, a useless one, in fact.
* ShootOutTheLock: Annie rescues Marshal out of the prison cell like this.

** The finale is a showdown at ''Film/HighNoon'', but with a twist.

* ShowdownAtHighNoon: How Rumpo chooses to run Marshal out of town. {{Lampshaded}} as a cliché by Marshal and Burke.

* SmugSnake: One of the coach drivers to Marshal and Annie's coach comes across as this towards Marshal -- either because he's [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution English]] or because he doesn't seem "[[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide manly]]". When Marshal assumes that the Native Americans aren't a threat to anyone, followed by an arrow stabbing the quiet driver, the smug one gives him an "I told you so" look.
* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Big Heap has lived with his Native American tribe for all his life, yet speaks perfect English when he meets cowboys. His son is the complete opposite.

* TheTropeKid: The Rumpo Kid.
* {{Undertaker}}: There's an undertaker in Stodge who was probably the only person (spare a few bored townsmen) in the town that supported Rumpo's invasion, ultimately destroying the gun control laws.

* VillainProtagonist: Rumpo, although, it's common with many villainous Sid James characters.
* WantedPoster: The Rumpo Kid is on a wanted poster on the door of the sheriff's office. Not once does any character look at it to check who's the true villain.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Big Heap is broken out of prison by the Rumpo Kid's gang but they are caught and banished to the woods by Marshall. Implied to have spent at least a week in a drunken coma with the group, he is eventually released by Rumpo and disappears out of the movie. That's fine, but [[spoiler:[[FridgeHorror has anyone told him that his son was killed in a failed bomb plot?]]]]

-->-- '''Marshal P. Knutt''' watching a CatFight.

It is based on the fictional depictions of TheWildWest, featuring CowboysAndIndians and several ShowdownAtHighNoon moments, starring Johnny Finger, [[TheTropeKid the Rumpo Kid]] (James), who arrives at a lonely town, and murders Sheriff Albert Earp (Creator/JonPertwee), and [[TyrantTakesTheHelm takes over the saloon]], previously owned by [[MissKitty Belle Armitage]] (Sims), now the LocalHangout for many villains.

Then an Englishman named Marshal P. Knutt (Dale), a sanitation engineer and expert in sewage system design who is mistaken for a marshal, arrives in the town, scaring the Rumpo Kid into trying to assassinate him, including sending Chief Big Heap (Hawtrey) and his son Little Heap's (Creator/BernardBresslaw) Native American tribe to attack the town. With the help of Annie Oakley (Douglas), Mayor Judge Burke (Williams) and Doc (Creator/PeterButterworth), there could be a chance that the Marshal "the marshal" will get away from the Rumpo Kid alive as HilarityEnsues.

* EverythingIsBigInTexas: Belle admires Ringo's guns:

-->'''Ringo''': I'm from Texas, ma'am. We all got big ones down there.

Then an Englishman named Marshal P. Knutt (Dale), a sanitation engineer and expert in sewage system design who is mistaken for a marshal, arrives in the town, scaring the Rumpo Kid into trying to assassinate him, including sending Chief Big Heap (Hawtrey)and his son Little Heap's (Creator/BernardBresslaw) Native American tribe to attack the town. With the help of Annie Oakley (Douglas), Mayor Judge Burke (Williams) and Doc (Creator/PeterButterworth), there could be a chance that the Marshal "the marshal" will get away from the Rumpo Kid alive as HilarityEnsues.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Big Heap and Little Heap.

''Carry On Cowboy'' is a 1965 film and the eleventh in the ''Film/CarryOn'' series starring Creator/SidJames, Creator/KennethWilliams, Creator/JimDale, Creator/CharlesHawtrey, Creator/JoanSims, Angela Douglas, Creator/PeterButterworth, and Creator/BernardBresslaw.

Then an Englishman named Marshal P. Knutt (Dale), a sanitation engineer and expert in sewage system design who is mistaken for a marshal, arrives in the town, scaring the Rumpo Kid into trying to assassinate him, including sending Chief Big Heap and Little Heap's (Hawtrey and Bresslaw) Native American tribe to attack the town. With the help of Annie Oakley (Douglas), Mayor Judge Burke (Williams) and Doc (Butterworth), there could be a chance that the Marshal "the marshal" will get away from the Rumpo Kid alive. HilarityEnsues.

->''"I know it's the Wild West, but this is ridiculous!"''
-->--'''Marshall P Knutt'''

Then an Englishman named Marshal P. Knutt (Dale), a sanitation engineer and expert in sewage system design who is mistaken for a marshal, arrives in the town, scaring the Rumpo Kid into trying to assassinate him, including sending Chief Big Heap and Little Heap's (Hawtrey and Bresslaw) Native American tribe to attack the town. With the help of Annie Oakley (Douglas), Mayor Judge Burke (Williams) and Doc (Butterworth), there could be a chance that the Marshal "the marshal" will get away from the Rumpo Kid alive.

HilarityEnsues.

!!Tropes Included:

''Carry On Cowboy'' is the eleventh movie in the ''Film/CarryOn'' film series starring Creator/SidJames, Creator/JoanSims, Creator/KennethWilliams, Creator/JimDale and Creator/CharlesHawtrey, as well as Creator/PeterButterworth, Creator/BernardBresslaw and Angela Douglas, appearing in this 1965 flick.

It is based on the fictional depictions of TheWildWest, featuring CowboysAndIndians and several ShowdownAtHighNoon moments, starring the [[TheTropeKid Rumpo Kid]] (James), who arrives at a lonely town, and murders the locals and TheSheriff, and [[TyrantTakesTheHelm takes over the saloon]], previously owned by [[MissKitty Belle]] (Sims), now the LocalHangout for many villains.

Then an Englishman named Marshall (Dale), a sanitation engineer and expert in sewage system design who is mistaken for a marshal, arrives in the town, scaring Rumpo into trying to assassinate him, including sending Chief Big Heap (Hawtrey) and Little Heap's (Bresslaw) Native American tribe to attack the town. With the help of Annie Oakley (Douglas), the Mayor (Williams) and Doc (Butterworth), there could be a chance that the Marshall "the marshal" will get away from the Rumpo Kid alive.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Annie uses this trope to worm her way into finding out who killed her father. (It also plays into the fact that she is [[MenAreStrongWomenArePretty female]] and [[DumbBlonde blonde]].) She pretends that Marshal is the killer of three Native Americans who were trying to attack their carriage because "you wouldn't expect a poor defenceless thing like me to do something like that." Naturally, everyone is amazed when she shoots Marshal out of his prison cell.

* PyjamaCladHero: Marshal briefly, when the villains blow up the jail entrance and lock him inside.

* BadassMoustache: Earp's moustache. That's the only thing that's badass about him.

* SmugSnake: One of the coach drivers to Marshal and Annie's coach comes across as this towards Marshal -- either because he's [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution English]] or because he doesn't seem "[[SensitiveGuy manly]]". When Marshal assumes that the Native Americans aren't a threat to anyone, followed by an arrow stabbing the quiet driver, the smug one gives him an "I told you so" look.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: It wouldn't be a ''Carry On'' film without it.
** Rumpo corrects Marshal's butchering of misnaming "bullocks" as cows, but P Knutt insists that he's not joking.
** This moment:
--->'''Mayor Judge Burke:''' I am the Mayor!\\
'''Rumpo Kid:''' You better away from my horse. He ain't seen a mare in three weeks.
** Belle commenting on [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the size of Rumpo's gun]] and Rumpo stating that all men from Texas "have big ones".

* TheJudge: Judge Burke, but he's such a coward, he doesn't do anything to stop the tyrant. The only judge-like thing you see is him pointing to the sign he made of abolishing firearms.

* {{Adorkable}}: Marshal, because of his failure to handle a gun and how he tries to live up to his mistaken identity as a badass marshal. He also fails to stop a catfight in his bedroom.

** The plot of the movie seems to have similar connections to ''Film/DestryRidesAgain''. Both stories have a character that has been promoted as a no-nonsense badass that would intimidate even the most terrifying person in the world, but then arrive as the complete opposite and are mocked by the biggest crime-bosses as wimps that don't believe in violence. The rest of the movie follows them trying to be taken seriously, as well as a smug rival who uses their presence as a distraction to commit crimes on the outskirts of the small town.

* EverythingsBigInTexas: Belle admires Ringo's guns:

** Judge Burke, whose descendants were Wright-Burkes. [[note]]Knowing the history of CockneyRhymingSlang, Judge's family is full of CountryMatters.[[/note]]

* TheJudge: Mayor Burke, who works as the state's Judge in his spare time.

* {{Catfight}}: Upon waiting for the Rumpo Kid to storm in the bedroom, Marshall is surprisingly visited by a flirtatious Belle, a distressed Annie and a prostitute that's sent as a distraction by Rumpo. One by one, they hide as the door knocks in fear of the visitor being an angry Rumpo, but they immediately discover another woman in their place, giving them the impression that the other is trying to court Marshall, and sets them off into a three-way catfight.

* NiceGuy
** Marshal, for definite. Even though he's suspicious of Rumpo and his gang, he is still polite.
** Annie Oakley is a nice girl, despite wanting to avenge her father's death.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Funnily enough, the movie doesn't refrain from a couple of these, and the trope appears more in this movie than most of the other ''Carry On'' films.

* LadyKiller: The United States County Commissioner, who is seen making out with his secretary when his adviser walks in.

** Judge Burke, whose descendants were Wright-Burkes. [[note]]Knowing the history of CockneyRhymingSlang, Judge's fmaily is full of CountryMatters.[[/note]]

'''Commissioner:''' Nobody? What about that big head who's always hanging around here looking for work? What's his name? Dillon. What's he doing?\\