Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

sddavis63 There's nothing wrong with the premise of this movie. In fact, the premise is really quite amusing. Jesse Heywood (played by Don Knotts) is a newly graduated bumbling dentist who moves out to the Old West to practice and bumbles his way into being mistaken for a big-time gunfighter. It's quite silly in a fun kind of way. It doesn't have very many uproarious laughs but it keeps you smiling. To me, though, it doesn't have enough substance to be a big screen movie. Don Knotts played the part of Heywood well - he played it basically as Don Knotts would play any part. I like Don Knotts, but really - he's a second banana type who's made for TV. As second banana to Andy Griffith in "The Andy Griffith Show" or to John Ritter in "Three's Company" he added a lot with his own unique comedic style. As leading man in a Hollywood movie (even a silly one like this) he just doesn't have the presence to carry it.This is a bit slow to get started, and in all honesty Knotts struck me as a bit old to be just graduating as a dentist (although that might have been appropriate to the character - Heywood had spent his whole life in his mother's pocket, so to speak, and now was finally branching out on his own against her will.) Once Barbara Rhoades entered the scene as the beautiful stagecoach robber turned government agent it picks up steam a bit, although she also has little screen presence and has been consistently a supporting actress at best, mostly on TV. There's nothing especially wrong with this. I just found that it had trouble filling 100 minutes of screen time.

wes-connors In 1870 Philadelphia, faint-hearted Don Knotts (as Jesse W. Heywood) obtains a license in dentistry, and decides to spread "dental health through the west like a plague." After his stagecoach is held up, Mr. Knotts joins a wagon train. He plays horsey with buxom Barbara Rhoades (as Penelope Cushings) and dresses up as a fetching Indian squaw. Is Knotts' character bisexual? The ending leaves the question unanswered. Gun smugglers Jackie "Uncle Fester" Coogan and Don "Red Ryder" Barry head off an able supporting cast. Vic Mizzy's wild, wild western music resembles his own "Green Acres". All in all, this is a tedious, uncalled for re-make of Bob Hope's "The Paleface" (1948).** The Shakiest Gun in the West (7/10/68) Alan Rafkin ~ Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan

disdressed12 Don Knotts star in this wacky comedy/western.Knotts plays a Philadelphia Dentist who head west to bring oral hygiene.he gets more than he bargained for,in the process.Dr. Jesse Heywood's penchant for being timid nervous,and bumbling provide some pretty funny moments.Knotts is pretty funny here,but i really Barbara Rhoades as Penny.i loved her spunky,and her take no guff attitude.she is the perfect foil for Knott's Zaniness.while this movie won't change your life,it should make you laugh.even if it wasn't funny,i think it would still work as just a western.for me,The Shakiest Gun in the West is a 7/10

SanDiego Not as well made as the original Bob Hope film "The Paleface" (this remake pretty much uses the same script but loses the song "Buttons and Bows"), but better than it's sequel "Son of Paleface." Don Knotts plays his usual nervous character without the Bob Hope pathos making for a sitcom style comedy (think "F-Troop"). Don Knotts would do several other comedy westerns in a few years including "The Apple Dumpling Gang."