The Shakiest Gun in the West
- Released on
- Runtime
- 101 mins
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".
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".
Cast
- Don Knotts
- Barbara Rhoades
- Jackie Coogan
- Ruth McDevitt
- Frank McGrath
- Terry Wilson
- Carl Ballantine
- Pat Morita
- Robert Yuro
- Herb Voland
- Fay DeWitt
- Dub Taylor
- Hope Summers
- Dick Wilson
- Don 'Red' Barry
- Vaughn Taylor
- Ed Peck
- Edward Faulkner
- Arthur Space
- Greg Mullavey
- Fred Aldrich
- E.J. André
- John Aniston
- Argentina Brunetti
- Claudia Bryar
- Paul Bryar
- Noble 'Kid' Chissell
- William Christopher
- Frank Coghlan Jr.
- Warde Donovan
- Mickey Finn
- Myron Healey
- Charles Horvath
- Clyde Howdy
- I. Stanford Jolley
- Gil Lamb
- James McHale
- Tina Menard
- Kathryn Minner
- Dorothy Neumann
- Eddie Quillan
- Bill Quinn
- Rodd Redwing
- Benny Rubin
- Naomi Stevens
- Boyd Stockman
- Leonard Stone
- Lorna Thayer
- Peggy Mondo
- Jim Boles
- King Moody
Director
- Alan Rafkin
Producers
- Edward Montagne
Screenwriter
- Everett Greenbaum
- Frank Tashlin
- Edmund L. Hartmann
- James Fritzell
