The Shakiest Gun in the West

The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)

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

Radar 34Slightly unusual1h 41mComedy · Family · Western

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A quieter title still finding its audience, though the rating rests on a thin sample, so treat it as provisional.

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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Radar score34/100
Quality signal64/100
Audience rating6.2
Votes counted50
Trust signalSlightly unusual

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