The Shakiest Gun in the West

1968 "He's so bad he was scalped by a cigar store Indian!!"

The Shakiest Gun in the West

6.3 | 1h41m | en | Comedy

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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6.3 | 1h41m | en | Comedy , Western , Family

Synopsis

Cast

Don Knotts ,Barbara Rhoades ,Jackie Coogan

Director

Alexander Golitzen

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Cast

Don Knotts

as Dr. Jesse W. Heywood

[2006] Air Buddies [2006] Hermie & Friends: Hermie and Wormie's Nutty Adventure [2006] Hermie & Friends: Stanley the Stinkbug Goes to Camp [2005] Chicken Little [2004] Hermie & Friends: Webster the Scaredy Spider [1999] Jingle Bells [1998] Pleasantville [1997] Cats Don't Dance [1996] Big Bully

Barbara Rhoades

as Penelope 'Bad Penny' Cushings

[1989] Out Cold [1977] Busting Loose [1977] The Goodbye Girl [1973] Scream Blacula Scream [1973] Little Cigars [1968] The Shakiest Gun in the West

Jackie Coogan

as Matthew Basch

[2003] Chaplin Today: 'The Kid' [2000] Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces [1983] Unknown Chaplin [1982] The Escape Artist [1980] Hollywood [1977] Halloween with the New Addams Family [1976] Sherlock Holmes in New York [1975] The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery [1974] The Phantom of Hollywood