The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)

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

• Comedy
• Family
• Western

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".

Rating

6.2 / 10 (51 votes)

Release date

July 10, 1968

Runtime

1h 41m

Language

English

Director

Alan Rafkin

Status

Released