- HD 1080
- Runtime: 101m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Alan Rafkin
- Stars: Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan, Ruth McDevitt, Frank McGrath
- keywords: horse, native american, stagecoach, covered wagon, cowgirl
- Production_studio: Universal Pictures
- Slogan: He's so bad he was scalped by a cigar store Indian!!
- providers: Starz Apple TV Channel
- The The Shakiest Gun in the West is featured in the top rankings of 1968
- #44 in Top Comedy Movies of 1968
- #11 in Top Family Movies of 1968
- #16 in Top Western Movies of 1968
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".