1968
6.2 (44 votes)
1h 41m
Genres
Comedy
Family
Western
Production Companies
Universal Pictures
The Shakiest Gun in the West
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".
Key Crew
Screenplay: Everett Greenbaum, Frank Tashlin, Edmund L. Hartmann, James Fritzell
Director: Alan Rafkin
Director of Photography: Andrew Jackson
Producer: Edward Montagne
