1968
6.2 (44 votes)
1h 41m
Genres
Comedy
Family
Western
Production Companies
Universal Pictures
The Shakiest Gun in the West
He's so bad he was scalped by a cigar store Indian!!
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".
Key Crew
Screenplay: Everett Greenbaum, Frank Tashlin, Edmund L. Hartmann, James Fritzell
Director: Alan Rafkin
Director of Photography: Andrew Jackson
Producer: Edward Montagne
Top Cast
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
