The Indians shoot the wheels of the wagon while Haywood is sleeping and the horses start to run.
There is a cut to a wide shot showing Heywood's arms flailing wildly.
But then there is a close-up and Heywood is just waking up.
After Penny leaves, Heywood is sitting at the table in the bar with a blond lady.
The lady drinks the liquor in her glass, draining it dry.
But then there is a shot of the table and there is still liquid in her glass.
When Heywood is following the wagons through the desert (after the outlaws take Penny) there are tracks from the wagon wheels in the sand, but no tracks form the horses that were pulling the wagons.
It is mentioned in the movie that the minister on the wagon train is not Pentecostal, but this movie takes place in 1870 and the Pentecostal church wasn't founded until the beginning of the 1900s.
When Heywood and the female patient start to fight, you can tell that they are stunt men, as Heywood's hair is all wrong and the "lady" is very muscular.
One of the crimes listed on Bad Penny's wanted poster is hijacking.
The word "hijacking" didn't enter the language until Prohibition in the 1920s.
The second Don Knotts star vehicle that I've watched is perhaps more readily enjoyable than the first - THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN (1966) but the fact that it was an unnecessary remake of the classic Bob Hope comedy THE PALEFACE (1948) hurts the overall effort.
Don Knotts stars as recent dental school graduate Jesse W. Heywood, who goes west from Philadelphia to make his name and fortune, but instead gets mixed up with stagecoach robber Penelope 'Bad Penny' Cushings(played by Barbara Rhoades), who is captured by authorities but offered a pardon if she will help them stop gun smugglers, which requires her to assume a new identity and husband - enter Jessie, who is all-too thrilled by her "romantic" interest in him, and helps him build a reputation as a gunfighter by doing his shooting for him...
I see I'm in the minority here but the Don Knotts movie had a better cast and was so much funnier. Barbara Rhoades was more believable as the criminal and also more appealing than Jane Russell and Bob Hope is not as crazy funny as Knotts.
This takes place in 1870. A pardoned sharp shooter (Barbara Rhodes) is hired as an agent to investigate a wagon train that's going west to find out who's selling guns to Indians.
This was an enjoyable spoof of the western by the great actor Don Knotts. Knotts is in top form as a mild mannered man out of his element in the old west and plays Dr.
Think its a pretty good flick certainly and really funny wavelength.
This story by Edmund Hartman and Frank Tashlin has certainly got an endearing quality because two comics managed to get hit movies from it. The Shakiest Gun In The West is a reworking of the Bob Hope-Jane Russell classic, The Paleface.
There's nothing wrong with the premise of this movie. In fact, the premise is really quite amusing.
I know it's a remake of Paleface, which I also enjoyed, but I liked "Shakiest.." better.
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