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Editorial review of ”The Shakiest Gun in the West” starring Don Knotts, courtesy of Amazon.com

Don Knotts in The Shakiest Gun in the West (Editor’s note: Don Knotts’ The Ghost Shakiest Gun in the West is available as part of the Don Knotts Relectant Hero 4-Pack) Jesse W. Haywood (played by Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west “to fight oral ignorance.” Meanwhile stagecoach robber Penelope “Bad Penny” Cushing is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks the bungling Haywood into a fictitious marriage as a disguise, and he becomes the heroic “Doc the Haywood” after he guns down “Arnold the Kid” and performs other exploits with Penny’s help (unbeknown to him or anyone else).

Funny movie quotes from The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968) starring Don Knotts

[On his dream of opening a dress shop]
Pop: Just because I’m rough ‘n’ dirty ‘n’ don’t wear underwear, doesn’t mean I’m not creative.

Jesse Heywood (Don Knotts): (drunk in bar) I’m not a failure. I’m a dentist, a REAL dentist! And I’ll tell you what I’m gonna do I’m gonna spread dental health across the West like a plague!

Jesse Heywood (Don Knotts): I can’t believe it. Tonight’s our wedding night. In a few hours we’ll stop, make camp, have a little supper, then… beddy bye.