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The Shakiest Gun in the West

1968 • 1h41m Comedy, Family, Western

Rating

6.3/10

Popularity

2

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".

Details

Director

Alan Rafkin

Screenplay

Everett Greenbaum

Frank Tashlin

Edmund L. Hartmann

Cast

Don Knotts

Barbara Rhoades

Jackie Coogan

Release date

7/10/1968

Status

Released

Origin country

US

Vote count

46