Cowboy Movies » The Shakiest Gun in the West http://cowboymovies.net Archive of gun slinging western movies Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:56:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Shakiest Gun in the West http://cowboymovies.net/the-shakiest-gun-in-the-west.html http://cowboymovies.net/the-shakiest-gun-in-the-west.html#comments Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:56:04 +0000 Wayne http://cowboymovies.net/?p=454 The Shakiest Gun in the West is a 1968 comedy western film starring Don Knotts. The movie was directed by Alan Rafkin and written by Jim Frtizell and Everett Greenbaum. The film has a runtime of 101 minutes and is unrated.

Plot Summary

Jesse W. Haywood (Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. As a “city slicker“, he finds himself bungling in an odd new environment.

On his way west the stagecoach he is travelling on is held up and robbed by two masked bandits. A posse sets out to capture the bandits and catches one of them, Penelope “Bad Penny” Cushing (Rhoades).

Held by the sheriff and facing prison as a convicted stagecoach robber, Penelope is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers that also involves a local Indian tribe. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise.

Haywood unintentionally and inadvertently becomes the legendary “Doc the Haywood” after he guns down “Arnold the Kid” and performs other exploits (all with covert assistance from Penny).

The film is a remake of The Paleface, a 1948 movie starring Bob Hope and Jane Russell.

Cast

  • Don Knotts …. Dr. Jesse W. Heywood
  • Barbara Rhoades …. Penelope ‘Bad Penny’ Cushings
  • Jackie Coogan …. Matthew Basch
  • Burt Mustin …. Old Artimus
  • Don ‘Red’ Barry …. Rev. Zachary Gant (as Donald Barry)
  • Ruth McDevitt …. Olive
  • Frank McGrath …. Mr. Remington
  • Terry Wilson …. Welsh
  • Carl Ballantine …. Abel Swanson
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