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The Shakiest Gun in the West

Release Date:July 10, 1968

Running Time:101 min

Genres:Comedy, Western, Family

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Cast

Don Knotts Barbara Rhoades Jackie Coogan Ruth McDevitt Frank McGrath Terry Wilson Carl Ballantine Pat Morita Robert Yuro Herb Voland Fay DeWitt Dub Taylor

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Synopsis

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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