The Shakiest Gun in the West

Movie
TitleThe Shakiest Gun in the West
User score

6.2

Release dateJul 10, 1968
GenreComedy, Family, Western
DirectorAlan Rafkin
Production countryUnited States of America
Production companiesUniversal Pictures
Run time101 min.

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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