The Shakiest Gun in the West

• 6.233 Comedy
• 1968-07-10
• 101 minutes mins

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".

Starring:

Don Knotts (Dr. Jesse W. Heywood) Barbara Rhoades (Penelope 'Bad Penny' Cushings) Jackie Coogan (Matthew Basch) Ruth McDevitt (Mrs. Olive Heywood) Frank McGrath (Mr. Remington) Terry Wilson (Welsh) Carl Ballantine (Abel Swanson) Pat Morita (Wong) Robert Yuro (Arnold the Kid) Herb Voland (Dr. Friedlander)

Director:

Alan Rafkin

Writer:

Everett Greenbaum Frank Tashlin Edmund L. Hartmann James Fritzell