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The Shakiest Gun in the West

1968 · 1h 41m · Comedy, Family, Western · United States of America

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".

Directed by
Alan Rafkin
Written by
James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum
Starring
Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan, Ruth McDevitt
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