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The Shakiest Gun in the West

The Shakiest Gun in the West

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 10, 1968

Runtime

1h 41m

Genres

Comedy, Family, Western

User Score

62%

Original Title

The Shakiest Gun in the West

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

Director

Alan Rafkin

Description

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".