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".

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Comedy
Family
Western
Release Date

Jul 10, 1968

Duration: 1h 41 min

Popularity: 2.9673
44 votes
Directed by

Alan Rafkin

Screenplay by

Everett GreenbaumFrank TashlinEdmund L. HartmannJames Fritzell

Productions

Universal Pictures (US)

Budget

Revenue: NA

Top Cast

Crew & Team

Everett Greenbaum

Screenplay

Frank Tashlin

Screenplay

Edmund L. Hartmann

Screenplay

James Fritzell

Screenplay