The Apple Dumpling Gang (film)
The Apple Dumpling Gang is a 1975 Disney movie about slick gambler Bill Bixby who is duped into taking care of a group of orphan children who eventually strike gold during the California Gold Rush. It also stars Tim Conway and Don Knotts as a team of bumbling gangsters who try to steal the gold, but are later offered the gold by the children.
The film also stars Susan Clark as the stagecoach driver who is forced to marry the gambler in an attempt for both of them to keep custody of the children, Harry Morgan as the sheriff who doubles at the barber, and justice of the peace. and Slim Pickens as Knotts and Conway's former boss who tries to kidnap both the children and the gold.
The film is based on the novel of the same name by Jack Bickham.
The film was hit at the box office for a Disney live action classic, and became one of the first Disney movies to be released on video, in October 1980.
The film is also known as being the first film to feature the comedy duo of Don Knotts and Tim Conway. Knotts and Conway developed different styles of pulling off their comedy. Conway's characters were usually the dumber of the two, which made Knotts usually the brains of the group.
Buddy Baker (composer) composed the music for it and it's sequel, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again.
In 1979, Knotts and Conway reprised their roles in the unsuccessful sequel The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again. Without the magic of Bixby, Clark, and the three children, the film was not a success. Knotts and Conway would team up for two more films together, both independent films, The Prize Fighter in 1979, and The Private Eyes.
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