The Shakiest Gun in the West

Name: The Shakiest Gun in the West
Director: Alan Rafkin
Genre: Comedy, Family, Western
Released: 1968-07-10
Duration: 1 h 41 min
Rating: 6.24
Cast: Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan, Ruth McDevitt, Frank McGrath

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

1968

1h 41m

Comedy Family Western

Director: Alan Rafkin

Writers: Everett Greenbaum, James Fritzell

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".