Film · Comedy, Family, Western
The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)
He's so bad he was scalped by a cigar store Indian!!
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".
- Director
- Alan Rafkin
- Writers
- James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum, Frank Tashlin
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- July 10, 1968
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 Cushings
Hope SummersCelia
Dick WilsonBlack Eagle (Indian chief)
Don 'Red' BarryRev. Zachary Gant
Vaughn TaylorRev. Longbaugh
Ed PeckSheriff
Edward FaulknerMarshal Sam Huggins
Arthur SpaceSheriff Tolliver
Greg MullaveyPhelps - Dental Student
