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Comedy / Family / Western

The Shakiest Gun in the West.

He's so bad he was scalped by a cigar store Indian!!

6.3/ 1019681h 41mEN

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".

Directed by Alan Rafkin

THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE STORY

Cast.

Don Knotts

Don Knotts

Dr. Jesse W. Heywood

Barbara Rhoades

Barbara Rhoades

Penelope 'Bad Penny' Cushings

Jackie Coogan

Jackie Coogan

Matthew Basch

Ruth McDevitt

Ruth McDevitt

Mrs. Olive Heywood

Frank McGrath

Frank McGrath

Mr. Remington

Terry Wilson

Terry Wilson

Welsh

Carl Ballantine

Carl Ballantine

Abel Swanson

Pat Morita

Pat Morita

Wong

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