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The Shakiest Gun in the West
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".
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Cast
- Don Knotts as Dr. Jesse W. Heywood
- Barbara Rhoades as Penelope 'Bad Penny' Cushings
- Jackie Coogan as Matthew Basch
- Ruth McDevitt as Mrs. Olive Heywood
- Frank McGrath as Mr. Remington
- Terry Wilson as Welsh
- Carl Ballantine as Abel Swanson
- Pat Morita as Wong
- Robert Yuro as Arnold the Kid
- Herb Voland as Dr. Friedlander
- Fay DeWitt as Violet
- Dub Taylor as Pop Cushings
Details
- Director
- Alan Rafkin
- Released
- July 10, 1968
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Comedy, Family, Western
- Studio
- Universal Pictures
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 6.2 / 10 from 50 votes
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