Thursday, July 12, 2007

The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)

(Philadelphia and the frontier west; 1870)
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Typical Knotts comedy has Don a newly minted dentist traveling west to start his practice. On the way he meets up with, and marries, Barbara Rhoades, a notorious lady outlaw who as part of a clemency deal with the government, is hunting down Indian gun runners hiding in a wagon train. There are a number of nominally funny bits scattered through out the film, but the best one comes at the beginning during Don's final dental school examine. Don "Red" Barry, star of many B-westerns of the 30's and 40's, plays one of the villains.

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