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The Apple Dumpling Gang
Wanted: For chicanery, skulduggery, tomfoolery and habitual bungling!
1975 · 1h 40m · G
Comedy, Family, Western
Directed by
Norman Tokar
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The Apple Dumpling Gang
Overview
A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws to fend off the greedy townspeople and soon find themselves facing a surly gang of sharpshooters.
Director and cast
- Norman Tokar Director
- Don Knotts as Gangster Theodore Ogelvie
- Tim Conway as Gangster Amos Tucker
- Harry Morgan as Sheriff McCoy
- Bill Bixby as Russel Donavan
- Susan Clark as Magnolia Dusty Clydesdale
- David Wayne as Colonel T.R. Clydesdale
- Slim Pickens Cast
- John McGiver Cast
- Don Knight Cast
- Clay O'Brien Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Everytime I see one of these antiseptic Disney films, I'm reminded of the thrills and genuine artistry that went into the studio's films during its golden age in the 1940s and 1950s.
The traditional ingredients of homely moralising, sentimentality and raucous slapstick are used sparingly, the dialogue is fairly bright, some visual gags are neatly executed.
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