The Shakiest Gun in the West

Name: The Shakiest Gun in the West
Director: Alan Rafkin
Genre: Comedy, Family, Western
Released: 1968-07-10
Duration: 1 h 41 min
Rating: 6.292
Cast: Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan, Ruth McDevitt, Frank McGrath

Directed by Alan Rafkin

Comedy

Family

Western

19681h 41m6.3

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".