The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968-07-10)
He's so bad he was scalped by a cigar store Indian!!
Overview
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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Status: Released
Release Date: 1968-07-10
Runtime: 1h 41m
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Everett Greenbaum, Frank Tashlin, Edmund L. Hartmann, James Fritzell
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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
Pat Morita
Wong
Robert Yuro
Arnold the Kid
Herb Voland
Dr. Friedlander
Fay DeWitt
Violet
Dub Taylor
Pop Cushings
Hope Summers
Celia
Dick Wilson
Black Eagle (Indian chief)
Don 'Red' Barry
Rev. Zachary Gant
Vaughn Taylor
Rev. Longbaugh
Ed Peck
Sheriff
Edward Faulkner
Marshal Sam Huggins
Arthur Space
Sheriff Tolliver
Greg Mullavey
Phelps - Dental Student
Fred Aldrich
Passerby (uncredited)
E.J. André
Will Banks
John Aniston
Indian (uncredited)
Argentina Brunetti
Squaw (uncredited)
Claudia Bryar
Mrs. Remington
Paul Bryar
Man at Bar (uncredited)
Noble 'Kid' Chissell
Townsman (uncredited)
William Christopher
Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Frank Coghlan Jr.
Man at Bar (uncredited)
Warde Donovan
Townsman (uncredited)
Mickey Finn
Father (uncredited)
Myron Healey
Stage Passenger (uncredited)
Charles Horvath
Indian Warrior (uncredited)
Clyde Howdy
Man (uncredited)
I. Stanford Jolley
Bearded Stage Passenger (uncredited)
Gil Lamb
Slosh White - Drunk
James McHale
Conductor (uncredited)
Tina Menard
Squaw (uncredited)
Kathryn Minner
96-Year-Old Woman (uncredited)
Dorothy Neumann
Mrs. Eva Longbaugh
Eddie Quillan
Train Porter (uncredited)
Bill Quinn
U.S. Marshal Arthur Bates
Rodd Redwing
White Buffalo (uncredited)
Benny Rubin
Man at Bar (uncredited)
Naomi Stevens
Squaw (uncredited)
Boyd Stockman
Stage Driver (uncredited)
Leonard Stone
Bartender (uncredited)
Lorna Thayer
Saloon Girl (uncredited)
Peggy Mondo
Indian Woman in Stagecoach
Jim Boles
Big Spring Townsman (uncredited)
King Moody
Ernie

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