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 The Apple Dumpling Gang is a 1975 American comedy-western film directed by Norman Tokar. The plot is about a slick gambler named Russell Donovan (Bill Bixby) who is duped into taking care of a group of orphans who eventually strike gold during the California Gold Rush. The film was produced by Walt Disney Productions. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Jack Bickham. Don Tait wrote the screenplay. The so-called "Apple Dumpling Gang" are named after their favorite American dessert treat, the apple dumpling. It 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, though they were both equally inept. Paul J. Smith and Buddy Baker composed the music for it and its 1979 sequel, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again. The song "The Apple Dumpling Gang", as heard in the opening and closing credits, was composed by Shane Tatum and was sung/performed by Randy Sparks and The Back Porch Majority. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Reception 4 Home media 5 Sequel and TV series 6 See also 7 References 8 External links Plot[edit] Set in the Wild West in the year 1879, a slick gambler named Russell Donovan (Bill Bixby) comes to the town of Quake City en route to New Orleans. In Quake City, Donovan meets his old associate, John Whintle. Whintle is leaving for San Francisco that night and asks Donovan to sign for valuables coming in on tomorrow’s stagecoach. Donovan accepts a down payment and promises to pick up the valuables. The next day, Donovan realizes he has been duped into taking care of three little orphans, Bobby, Clovis, and Celia Bradley. The stagecoach driver Magnolia “Dusty” Clydesdale (Susan Clark) explains that Whintle is in fact the children’s relative and their de facto legal guardian. With their relative gone and Donovan promising to care for the “valuables”, they are now wards of Donovan. The town's sheriff, barber, Justice of the Peace, and judge Homer McCoy (Harry Morgan) tells Donovan that he is legally obligated unless he can have someone else take custody of the children. The children inadvertently cause Donovan much grief by offending all prospective new guardians. The Bradleys wreak havoc in Quake City while riding in an old mine cart destroying much private property. The town’s citizens demand that Donovan pay for the damages, losing him most of his funds for his trip to New Orleans. As soon as Donovan arrived in Quake City, he is the target of the “Hashknife Outfit”. The Outfit consists of two ne’er do well former members of the Stillwell Gang, Amos Tucker (Tim Conway) and Theodore Ogelvie (Don Knotts). They were once very threatening, until they were ousted by their former boss, Frank Stillwell (Slim Pickens), for shooting him in the leg. Amos and Theodore continuously try to rob Donovan during his stay in town to miserable results. Bobby, Clovis, and Celia decide to help their guardian make money by going to the gold mine that they inherited. They come across Amos and Theodore at their hideout and become acquainted. They direct the kids to the mine after mistaking them for a posse. Despite the gold veins drying up years previously, the Bradley children end up finding a massive gold nugget. This incentivizes many people to adopt the children as it would give them access to the gold. Fearing that the people would not have the children's best interests at heart, Donovan has arranged a sham marriage with Dusty so she can keep custody of the Bradley children while he goes to New Orleans. However, things become complicated when Whintle returns. Whintle has heard of the gold and schemes to get the children back. His attorney has a court order demanding immediate return of the Bradleys. McCoy is forced to adhere to Whintle’s demands. At the same time, Amos and Theodore attempt to steal the Bradleys' gold from the local bank and escape to Mexico. The Hashknife Outfit proves unsuccessful when they try to enter the skylight and wrap themselves up in their rope used for rapelling down. McCoy finds them guilty and orders arrest warrants for them, causing the two to retreat to their hideout. The Stillwell Gang enters town and plans to steal the nugget. Frank impersonates a priest to gain more information about the transportation of the gold from Colonel T. R. Clydesdale (David Wayne). The children, who have grown attached to Donovan and Dusty, go to Theodore and Amos and allow them to steal the gold. If the gold goes missing, Whintle will have no more desire for the children and will return custody. The next day, the Stillwell Gang enters the bank and takes the nugget. Simultaneously, the kids help the Hashknife Outfit rob the bank. Amos and Theodore are recognized by Frank and are almost killed. They are saved when one of the Stillwell Gang starts a shootout with the lawmen and distracts Frank. Frank decides to leave the gold and escape, taking Celia as a hostage. Donovan saves her from Stillwell with the help of Dusty and they realize their love for one another and embrace. Amos and Theodore retreat to the bank’s safe to escape gunfire. Their unstable dynamite is shot, obliterating the bank and the gold nugget gets blown into many smaller nuggets. Whintle renounces his guardianship and leaves town. Stillwell’s bounty is awarded to Donovan, giving him enough money for New Orleans. He instead buys a ranch for himself, Dusty, and the Bradley children. While on their way to the ranch, a reformed Amos and Theodore catch up with the newfound family asking for work as farmhands, to which Donovan agrees. Cast[edit] Bill Bixby as Russell Donovan Susan Clark as Magnolia Dusty Clydesdale Don Knotts as Theodore Ogelvie Tim Conway as Amos Tucker David Wayne as Col. T.R. Clydesdale Slim Pickens as Frank Stillwell Harry Morgan as Homer McCoy John McGiver as Leonard Sharpe Don Knight as John Wintle Clay O'Brien as Bobby Bradley Brad Savage as Clovis Bradley Stacy Manning as Celia Bradley Dennis Fimple as Rudy Hooks Pepe Callahan as Clemons Iris Adrian as Poker Polly Fran Ryan as Mrs. Stockley Bing Russell as Herm Dally James E. Brodhead as The Mouthpiece Jim Boles as Easy Archie Olan Soule as Rube Cluck Tom Waters as Rowdy Joe Dover Dawn Little Sky as Big Foot Joshua Shelley as Broadway Phil Richard Lee-Sung as Oh So Arthur Wong as No So Dick Winslow as Slippery Sid Bill Dunbar as Fast Eddie Wally Berns as Cheating Charley Reception[edit] The film was a hit at the box office, earning $13.5 million in theatrical rentals.[3] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote that the film was "In a lot of ways ... a throwback to the Disney productions of two or three years ago, a period of overwhelming banality in the studio's history. More recently, Disney has given us some genuinely inventive entertainments, especially 'Escape to Witch Mountain' and 'Island at the Top of the World.' With 'The Apple Dumpling Gang,' we're back to assembly line plots about the adventure of squeaky-clean kids.".[4] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film one star out of four and called it "the latest piece of treacle from the Walt Disney sitcom kitchen. The recipe is well-known: Mix smiling moms and pops with the dash of villains, fold in saccharine children, and beat with slapstick. The resulting cinematic mush is so predictable, it's a wonder that more youngsters don't tell the Disney folks to 'bake off.'"[5] Richard Eder of The New York Times called it "as cheerful and indistinguishable as rice pudding."[6] Variety called the film "an engaging gentle-humored comedy melodrama ... Don Tait's screenplay based on the book by Jack M. Bickham would benefit by some sharp editing of certain Knotts-Conway routines but otherwise picture generally is a fast-paced situation caper."[7] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called it "a pleasant and funny Disney family comedy" that was "a bit long but amiable enough to get away with overstaying its welcome."[8] Gary Arnold of The Washington Post called it "the summer's second consecutive stale confection from the Disney organization, whose comedy formulas are solely in need of rejuvenation."[9] Home media[edit] In October 1980, it became one of the first Disney movies to be released on videocassette. Both The Apple Dumpling Gang and its sequel, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, have been released on Disney DVD in the United States. In the United Kingdom, only the original film has been made available on DVD. Sequel and TV series[edit] In 1979, Knotts and Conway reprised their roles in the sequel The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again. Bill Bixby, Susan Clark, and the rest of the cast did not appear. Harry Morgan was the only other member of the cast to appear in the sequel, although he plays a different character. In January 1982, Disney aired Tales of the Apple Dumpling Gang, a television film remake starring John Bennett Perry in the Bixby role, Ed Begley Jr. in the Conway role and Arte Johnson in the Knotts role. One year later saw the premiere of a television series, Gun Shy, with a completely different cast, including Barry Van Dyke in the Bixby role. Six episodes were produced. *****         ebay3914Walt Disney started by making movies in which animated drawings played the parts of people or animals who stood for people. Later he turned to making movies in which people or animals play the parts of animated drawings.They bound, they double-take, they simper when moved and quack when angry. Their disasters—crashes, plunges through space, explosions—are weightless."The Apple Dumpling Gang," the fourth Disney production to open here this month, is a fair example. It is about a Wild West cardsharp named Donavan who agrees to take delivery of some valuables for a friend, only to find that the valuables are three orphan children.The three children are hellions, of course, and darling to boot. The gambler doesn't boot them, this being Disney Productions: he takes them in with the tough-talking but golden-hearted assistance of a woman stagecoach driver. Adventures occur, including the children's discovery of a giant gold nugget and the efforts of two wildly incompetent bandits to take it away from them.Donavan, played by Bill Bixby, models his sputtering but doomed resistance to the tide of Disneyish good feeling on Donald Duck. The bandits, Don Knotts and Tim Conway, are clearly Disney skunks. The children are chipmunks except for the youngest, played by Celia Bradley. She is a little blond girl who creeps into Donavan's lap and says such things as "I love you, Mr. Donavan." She is probably Dumbo.It is as cheerful and indistinguishable as rice pudding. It even has the two-and-a-half raisins that a quality-control office somewhere inside Disney Productions seems to allow its pictures. One, for example, when a bandit tries to rope the gambler and gets tangled up in his own noose. "Maybe we can head him off at the pass," he suggests without any conviction. "Mmmhmm," his partner answers after a long silence.It will keep the children away from poison ivy, and it will probably amuse them, though at a preview most of the laughing was done by a father whose two daughters sat in amiable silence. It won't hurt them, anyway, though after four Disney pictures in one month it may be necessary to hit them a bit if they show signs of crawling into your lap. The CastTHE APPLE DUMPLING GANG, directed by Norman Tokar; screenplay by Don Tait based on the book by Jack M. Bickham; director of photography, Frank Phillips; edited by Ray de Leuw; music by Buddy Baker; produced by Bill Anderson and Walt Disney Productions; released by Buena Vista Distribution Co., Inc. At the Festival Theater, 57th Street at Fifth Avenue; Fine Arts Theater, 58th Street and Lexington Avenue and the RKO 86th Street Twin 2 Theater, at Lexington Avenue. Running time: 100 minutes. (This film has been classified G).Russel Donavan . . . . . Bill BixbyMagnolia Dusty Clydesdale . . . . . Susan ClarkTheodore Ogelvie . . . . . Don KnottsAmos . . . . . Tim ConwayCol. T. R. Clydesdale . . . . . David WayneFrank Stillwell . . . . . Slim PickensBobby Bradley . . . . . Clay O'BrienClovis Bradley . . . . . Brad SavageCelia Bradley . . . . . Stacey Manning ****  The Apple Dumpling Gang Roger Ebert August 12, 1975 A few years ago, while watching (as nearly as I can recall) a Disney movie named "Blackbeard's Ghost," I devised the Thunder Index as a means of measuring audience enthusiasm at kiddie matinees. To the degree that the kids do not thunder up and down the aisles (and up and down on each other), they're enjoying the movie - or are at least lulled by it. But when there are more kids at the candy counter than in the theater, something has gone wrong. Judged by this standard, Walt Disney's "The Apple Dumpling Gang" is a success. It even got a cheer at the end, which isn't always the case; kids are just as cheerfully willing to boo. The story is simple and obvious, but it's told with a lot of energy, and the cast is jammed, with character actors doing their things. When you have Slim Pickens, Harry (Dragnet) Morgan, John McGiver, Don Knotts and Tim Conway on the screen all at once, there's always something to look at, even if it's only the crowd of them perfecting their shtick. ADVERTISEMENT In a lot of ways, though, "The Apple Dumpling Gang" is a throwback to the Disney productions of two or three years ago, a period of overwhelming banality in the studio's history. More recently, Disney has given us some genuinely inventive entertainments, especially "Escape to Witch Mountain" and "Island at the Top of the World." With "The Apple Dumpling Gang," we're back to assembly line plots about the adventure of squeaky-clean kids. The kids this time are three orphans who are dumped in a California town to fend for themselves, and are eventually taken under the wings of a traveling gambler (Bill Bixby) and a lady stagecoach driver (Susan Clark, looking very perky). The kids stumble onto a gigantic golden nugget, which inspires a local competition among the dozens of citizens now eager to adopt them, and that in turn leads to two simultaneous attempts to steal the nuggets from the bank vault. There are, as usual, two sets of bad guys: the Good Bad Guys (Knotts and Conway) and the Bad Bad Guys (led by Slim Pickens, disguised as an itinerant preacher, as if you could ever disguise Slim Pickens). The Good Bad Guys team up with the kids to steal the nugget so that the kids won't be so rich and can live with the gambler and the stagecoach driver. The Bad Bad Guys . . . but you get the picture. 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. Is it just that I've grown older, or were the Disney classics really better than their contemporary stuff? Up at the Biograph last weekend, they revived "Alice in Wonderland," with its disappearing Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter and all. And you know, even though it's been years since I saw it, I remember it better than "The Apple Dumpling Gang." **** folder100