The Shakiest Gun in the West

Jul 10, 1968

1h 41m

★ 6.3

He's so bad he was scalped by a cigar store Indian!!

Overview

Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".

Genres

Comedy

Family

Western

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

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Cast

Dr. Jesse W. Heywood

Don Knotts

Penelope 'Bad Penny' Cushings

Barbara Rhoades

Matthew Basch

Jackie Coogan

Mrs. Olive Heywood

Ruth McDevitt

Mr. Remington

Frank McGrath

Welsh

Terry Wilson

Abel Swanson

Carl Ballantine

Wong

Pat Morita

Arnold the Kid

Robert Yuro

Dr. Friedlander

Herb Voland

Violet

Fay DeWitt

Pop Cushings

Dub Taylor

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