Don Knotts
Dr. Jesse W. Heywood
The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)
"He's so bad he was scalped by a cigar store Indian!!"
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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".
Top Billed Cast
Barbara Rhoades
Penelope 'Bad Penny' Cushings
Jackie Coogan
Matthew Basch
Ruth McDevitt
Mrs. Olive Heywood
Frank McGrath
Mr. Remington
Terry Wilson
Welsh
Carl Ballantine
Abel Swanson
Pat Morita
Wong
Robert Yuro
Arnold the Kid
Herb Voland
Dr. Friedlander
Fay DeWitt
Violet
Dub Taylor
Pop Cushings
Hope Summers
Celia
Dick Wilson
Black Eagle (Indian chief)
Don 'Red' Barry
Rev. Zachary Gant
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