The Shakiest Gun in the West
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".
Genre: Comedy, Family, Western
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, Hope Summers
Crew: Everett Greenbaum (Screenplay), Alan Rafkin (Director), Frank Tashlin (Screenplay), James Fritzell (Screenplay), Edmund L. Hartmann (Screenplay)