Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan

Jesse W. Haywood 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 ...( read more  read more... )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).

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Unrated, 101 min.

Directed by: Alan Rafkin

Release Date: January 1, 1968

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DVD Release Date: September 2, 2003

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  • March 17, 2008
    A Don Knotts slapstick vehicle-- you ought to know what to expect. Silly and harmless.
  • June 5, 2007
    I laugh my head off everytime I see this movie. Don Knotts plays a similar character in pretty much every movie, but that doesn't make it any less good. Knotts as a gunslinger in the Wild West is a great combination.
  • July 5, 2009
    I just love Don Knots
    he's always funny no matter where he's at
  • December 31, 2008
    funny....i think this is the one i watch when i was a kid, but i'm not sure
  • December 8, 2008
    no thanks not my thing
  • November 3, 2008
    Don Knotts was such a terrific actor. RIP!
  • June 24, 2008
    One of the funnier Don Knotts movies, the sexually tense moments are especially hilarious.

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