The Shakiest Gun in the West
He's so bad he was scalped by a cigar store Indian!!
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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".
Cast
Don KnottsDr. Jesse W. Heywood
Barbara RhoadesPenelope 'Bad Penny' Cushings
Jackie CooganMatthew Basch
Ruth McDevittMrs. Olive Heywood
Frank McGrathMr. Remington
Terry WilsonWelsh
Carl BallantineAbel Swanson
Pat MoritaWong
Robert YuroArnold the Kid
Herb VolandDr. Friedlander
Fay DeWittViolet
Dub TaylorPop CushingsCrew
DirectorAlan Rafkin
Details
Release DateJuly 10, 1968
LanguagesEnglish
StudiosUniversal Pictures
