FILM
The Shakiest Gun in the West
“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".
- Director
- Alan Rafkin
- Genres
- Comedy, Family, Western
- Frontier mode
- Big screen energy
- Unhinged but iconic
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