The Shakiest Gun in the West
1968/07/10 (US) | Comedy, Family, Western
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".
Everett Greenbaum
Screenplay
Frank Tashlin
Screenplay
Alan Rafkin
Director
Edmund L. Hartmann
Screenplay
James Fritzell
Screenplay
Lead Cast
Don Knotts
Dr. Jesse W. Heywood
Barbara Rhoades
Penelope 'Bad Penny' Cushings
Jackie Coogan
Matthew Basch
Ruth McDevitt
Mrs. Olive Heywood
Frank McGrath
Mr. Remington
Terry Wilson
Welsh
Carl Ballantine
Abel Swanson
Budget
$ 0
Revenue
$ 0
Status
Released
Production Company
- Universal Pictures
Crews
Polly Burson
Stunt Double
Andrew Jackson
Director of Photography
Tony Martinelli
Editor