The Shakiest Gun in the West

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

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".

Comedy Family Western

Don Knotts

(Dr. Jesse W. Heywood)

Barbara Rhoades

(Penelope 'Bad Penny' Cushings)

Jackie Coogan

(Matthew Basch)

Ruth McDevitt

(Mrs. Olive Heywood)

Frank McGrath

(Mr. Remington)

Terry Wilson

Carl Ballantine

Pat Morita

Robert Yuro

(Arnold the Kid)

Herb Voland

(Dr. Friedlander)

Fay DeWitt

Dub Taylor

Hope Summers

Dick Wilson

(Black Eagle (Indian chief))

Don 'Red' Barry

(Rev. Zachary Gant)

Vaughn Taylor

(Rev. Longbaugh)

Ed Peck

Edward Faulkner

(Marshal Sam Huggins)

Arthur Space

(Sheriff Tolliver)

Greg Mullavey

(Phelps - Dental Student)

Fred Aldrich

(Passerby (uncredited))

E.J. André

John Aniston

(Indian (uncredited))

Argentina Brunetti

(Squaw (uncredited))

Claudia Bryar

(Mrs. Remington)

Paul Bryar

(Man at Bar (uncredited))

Noble 'Kid' Chissell

(Townsman (uncredited))

William Christopher

(Hotel Manager (uncredited))

Frank Coghlan Jr.

(Man at Bar (uncredited))

Warde Donovan

(Townsman (uncredited))

Mickey Finn

(Father (uncredited))

Myron Healey

(Stage Passenger (uncredited))

Charles Horvath

(Indian Warrior (uncredited))

Clyde Howdy

(Man (uncredited))

I. Stanford Jolley

(Bearded Stage Passenger (uncredited))

Gil Lamb

(Slosh White - Drunk)

James McHale

(Conductor (uncredited))

Tina Menard

(Squaw (uncredited))

Kathryn Minner

(96-Year-Old Woman (uncredited))

Dorothy Neumann

(Mrs. Eva Longbaugh)

Eddie Quillan

(Train Porter (uncredited))

Bill Quinn

(U.S. Marshal Arthur Bates)

Rodd Redwing

(White Buffalo (uncredited))

Benny Rubin

(Man at Bar (uncredited))

Naomi Stevens

(Squaw (uncredited))

Boyd Stockman

(Stage Driver (uncredited))

Leonard Stone

(Bartender (uncredited))

Lorna Thayer

(Saloon Girl (uncredited))

Peggy Mondo

(Indian Woman in Stagecoach)

Jim Boles

(Big Spring Townsman (uncredited))

King Moody