Release Date | 1968-07-10 |
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Runtime | 101 minutes |
Genres | Comedy, Family, Western |
Stars | Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan, Ruth McDevitt, Frank McGrath |
Directors | Alan Rafkin, Frank Tashlin, James Fritzell, Edmund L. Hartmann, Everett Greenbaum |
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".