Director: Alan Rafkin

Writers: Jim Fritzell; Everett Greenbaum; Edmund Hartmann; Frank Tashlin

Keywords: Western/Comedy, Dentists

Don Knotts is Jesse W. Heywood, a newly licensed dentist from Philadelphia Dental College, heading west to spread "dental health through the west like a plague" and to "fight oral ignorance." Heywood gains an undeserved reputation as a crack shot as he becomes entangled with seductive lady bandit Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing, who has been offered a pardon to break up a ring of gun smugglers. Adequate remake of Bob Hope's much-superior The Paleface (1948).

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Carl Ballantine	Actor	27-Sep-1922	3-Nov-2009	Lester Gruber on McHale's Navy
Jackie Coogan	Actor	26-Oct-1914	1-Mar-1984	Uncle Fester in The Addams Family
Don Knotts	Actor	21-Jul-1924	24-Feb-2006	Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show
Ruth McDevitt	Actor	13-Sep-1895	27-May-1976	Pistols 'n' Petticoats
Frank McGrath	Actor	2-Feb-1903	13-May-1967	Charlie Wooster on Wagon Train
Pat Morita	Actor	28-Jun-1932	24-Nov-2005	Miyagi on Karate Kid
Greg Mullavey	Actor	10-Sep-1939		Tom Hartman on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Barbara Rhoades	Actor	23-Mar-1947		The Shakiest Gun in the West
Hope Summers	Actor	7-Jun-1896	22-Jun-1979	Clara Edwards on The Andy Griffith Show
Dub Taylor	Actor	26-Feb-1907	3-Oct-1994	Bonnie and Clyde
Dick Wilson	Actor	30-Jul-1916	19-Nov-2007	Mr. Whipple
Terry Wilson	Actor	3-Sep-1923	30-Mar-1999	Bill Hawks on Wagon Train

REVIEWS

Review by Dan Sichelski (posted on 28-Jul-2007)

This is a remake of the Bob Hope movie "Paleface" in which a timid dentist is mistaken for a gunslinger. It fits the typical Don Knotts movie format: coward mistakenly becomes a celebrated hero, coward begins to believe the hype, coward falls from grace when truth is discovered, coward rises to the challenge and actually becomes a hero. Bob Hope fans would probably prefer to see him in the role rather than Don Knotts. Don Knotts fans will be amused.

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