Movielogr
The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)
Directed by Alan Rafkin
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”.
Length 101 minutes
Actors
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 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 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