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The Shakiest Gun in the West is a 1968 American comedy Western film starring Don Knotts. It was directed by Alan Rafkin and written by Jim Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum. The film is a remake of The Paleface, a 1948 film starring Bob Hope and Jane Russell.
The Shakiest Gun in the West: Directed by Alan Rafkin. With Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan, Don 'Red' Barry. A pardoned stagecoach robber, becomes government agent and marries a naive unsuspecting east-coast dentist in order to join a wagon train and catch the smugglers who have been selling guns to the Indians.
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Synopsis in 1870, bumbling Philadelphia-based dentist Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) travels west to set up a practice in the frontier. There, he meets Penelope Cushings (Barbara Rhoades), a...
- Western, Comedy
The Shakiest Gun in the West. Don Knotts stars as a timid dentist who is forced to switch from gums to guns when he moves to the Old West and is duped into marrying a statuesque redhead (and reformed stagecoach bandit). 1,744 IMDb 6.3 1 h 40 min 1968. X-Ray G. Comedy · Western · Cheerful · Outlandish. Free trial of STARZ, rent, or buy.
Summaries. A pardoned stagecoach robber, becomes government agent and marries a naive unsuspecting east-coast dentist in order to join a wagon train and catch the smugglers who have been selling guns to the Indians. Jesse W. Haywood graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west "to fight oral ignorance."
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.
