The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)
He's so bad he was scalped by a cigar store Indian!!
101 min
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".
- Release date
- July 10, 1968
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Vic Mizzy
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Soundtrack
- Embleminstrumental0:21
- Westward Hoinstrumental1:38
- Scared Stiffinstrumental2:47
- Posse Pursue Pennyinstrumental1:55
- Stranger in Towninstrumental0:30
- New Pennyinstrumental0:41
- Done and Done-ininstrumental0:41
- Faint Heartinstrumental1:13
- Penny's Planinstrumental2:13
- Wagons West!instrumental2:10
- Campfire Guitarinstrumental1:44
- Hot Shotsinstrumental2:02
Cast
- Don Knotts as Jesse W. Heywood
- Barbara Rhoades as Penelope Cushings
- Jackie Coogan as Basch
- Ruth McDevitt as Olive
- Frank McGrath as Mr. Remington
- Terry Wilson as Welsh
- Carl Ballantine as Swanson
- Pat Morita as Wong
- Robert Yuro as Arnold the Kid
- Herb Voland as Dr. Friedlander
- Fay DeWitt as Violet
- Dub Taylor as Pop Cushings
- Hope Summers as Celia
- Dick Wilson as Black Eagle (Indian chief)
- Don 'Red' Barry as Rev. Zachary Gant
- Vaughn Taylor as Rev. Longbaugh
- Ed Peck as Sheriff
- Edward Faulkner as Marshal Sam Huggins
- Arthur Space as Sheriff Tolliver
- Greg Mullavey as Phelps - Dental Student
- Fred Aldrich as Passerby (uncredited)
- E.J. André as Will Banks
- John Aniston as Indian (uncredited)
- Argentina Brunetti as Squaw (uncredited)
- Claudia Bryar as Mrs. Remington
- Paul Bryar as Man at Bar (uncredited)
- William Christopher as Hotel Manager (uncredited)
- Frank Coghlan Jr. as Man at Bar (uncredited)
Crew
- Alan Rafkin · Director
- James Fritzell · Writer
- Everett Greenbaum · Writer
- Edmund L. Hartmann · Writer
- Frank Tashlin · Writer
- Edward Montagne · Producer
- Vic Mizzy · Composer
- Andrew Jackson · Cinematographer
- Tony Martinelli · Editor