The Shakiest Gun in the West

Year: 1968

Runtime: 101 mins

Language: English

Director: Alan Rafkin

ComedyWesternFamily

After graduating dental school in Philadelphia in 1870, Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) heads west to work as a dentist. He is forced into a marriage with “Bad Penny” Cushing (Barbara Rhoades), who hopes a pardon for hunting a gun‑smuggling ring. The ruse drags Haywood into outlaw land, where he becomes “Doc the Haywood” after shooting Arnold the Kid. His clumsy heroics even earn the joke that he was scalped by a cigar‑store Indian.

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