Carry On Cowboy (1965)

According to Hardy's Encyclopedia of Westerns this is "crudely made with few redeeming features". I think that's a little unfair. Obviously, as will all the Carry On series there's a lot of smut and double-entendre and so enjoyment will largely depend on how much you like that sort of thing (I do). There's also a fairly thin plot (The Rumpo Kid takes over a town and kills the Sheriff, a sanitation engineer is mistakenly sent to "clean up the town", at the same time as the Sheriff's daughter arrives to take revenge).

The basic outline of the plot (the inexperienced man finding himself charged with cleaning up a town)---while obviously exaggerated—could well be from a 40s or 50s B Western. The slightly corny joke about the undertaker's obvious happiness with the ever-increasing body count played fine in A Fistful of Dollars (made a year earlier, but I shouldn't think Carry On Cowboy) was influenced by it) so it would seem churlish to criticise it here. As my wife pointed out, it isn't actually that sexist – the men are perpetually being led astray by their lust, while Annie Oakley (who has come to avenge her father) is by far the most competent gunfighter around. The accents are a mixed bag: Sid James' Rumpo Kid doesn't sound too bad to me, but a lot of the other accents are pretty awful. I don't think that matters.

One particularly wonderful joke—which I think does show a real appreciation for the Western—has the Sheriff riding across the street. He climbs on his horse, waves forward over his shoulder, there's a dramatic swell of music as if he's setting off on an epic cattle drive, and he dismounts at the other side of the street.