Released
The Shakiest Gun in the West
July 10 1968 (over 56 years ago)Rating
62
Based on
44 reviews
He's so bad he was scalped by a cigar store Indian!!
- Director: Alan Rafkin
- Writers: Everett Greenbaum, Frank Tashlin, Edmund L. Hartmann, James Fritzell
- Genres: Comedy, Family, Western
- Runtime: 1 h 41 m
- Country: United States of America
- Company: Universal Pictures
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".
