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The Apple Dumpling Gang (Special Edition)
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Additional DVD options | Edition | Discs | Price | New from | Used from |
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June 20, 2005 "Please retry" | — | 1 |
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| $53.38 | $15.75 |
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Genre | ACTION, Comedy, LIVE |
Format | NTSC, Multiple Formats, Widescreen, Color, Closed-captioned, Anamorphic, Dolby, Special Edition |
Contributor | Bill Bixby, Brad Savage, Frank Phillips, Tim Conway, Norman Tokar, Slim Pickens, David Wayne, John McGiver, Based On The Book By Jack M. Bickham, Don Knotts, Dennis Fimple, Clay O'Brien, Iris Adrian, Don Knight, Harry Morgan, Screenplay By Don Tait, Susan Clark See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 40 minutes |
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Product Description
Head for cover! Don Knotts and Tim Conway are Wild West outlaws who can't hit the broad side of a barn -- but never miss when it comes to rounding up laughs! The hilarity begins when a roving bachelor (Bill Bixby) inherits three young orphans and a wealth of problems. When the youngsters stumble upon a huge golden nugget, they must fend off the greedy townspeople. So the kids join forces with the bumbling outlaws to stage a robbery of the gold. Little do they know a surly gang of sharpshooters plans to beat them to the draw! If you're aiming for fun, saddle up and head out with THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG!|When planning sets for the film, the designers decided three copies of the bank had to be built. One was indoors on a soundstage while two matching exteriors were built on the backlot, one of them roofless with burned beams exposed.|Location filming took place at the Tropico gold mine, in Rosamond, California, and in the Los Padres and Deschutes national forest in Oregon.|The pairing of Don Knotts and Tim Conway was so successful, it led to a 1979 sequel THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG RIDES AGAIN.|The story is based on the 1971 novel by Jack M. Bickham.|The movie inspired the TV pilot "Tales Of The Apple Dumpling Gang" in 1982, which led to the show "Gun Shy," which aired for one month in 1983.
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.75:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : G (General Audience)
- Product Dimensions : 0.6 x 5.4 x 7.5 inches; 0.8 ounces
- Item model number : WD02732400DVD
- Director : Frank Phillips, Norman Tokar
- Media Format : NTSC, Multiple Formats, Widescreen, Color, Closed-captioned, Anamorphic, Dolby, Special Edition
- Run time : 1 hour and 40 minutes
- Release date : September 2, 2003
- Actors : Bill Bixby, Susan Clark, Tim Conway, Don Knotts, David Wayne
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Unqualified (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : Walt Disney Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B00009YXAV
- Writers : Screenplay By Don Tait, Based On The Book By Jack M. Bickham
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #22,978 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,984 in Kids & Family DVDs
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This story about some orphans who get saddled to an unwitting man trying to to an old acquaintance a favor end up finding some gold and the antics of two bumbling thieves who try to rob the man many time and fail again and again. There's a little bit of action, romance, drama, comedy... basically something for everyone.
If you like this one be sure to check out its sequel, 'The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again'.
The plot has Donovan (Bill Bixby), a bachelor and small time hustler of sorts, getting stuck with the care of three orphan children. As he tries to unburden himself of his three wards, he finds the townspeople to be less than receptive to the idea of taking in the children. These orphans hold the deed to a goldmine, thought by everyone to be dried up, but an earthquake turns up a huge gold nugget, and now the townspeople are falling over themselves to take custody. Donovan, actually concerned with the welfare of the children, works up a plan to marry Dusty (Susan Clark), and pass the children on to her care, as she seems truly interested in the welfare of the children, and not their money.
Don Knotts and Tim Conway play a pair of bungling thieves who scheme, among other things, to try and steal the huge gold nugget. The whole ladder theft from the firehouse scene was pretty funny.
Some other easily recognizable stars in this movie are Harry Morgan and Slim Pickens.
As I said before, while the movie didn't seem as humorous to me now as it did when I was a child, it was certainly entertaining. It's a fine wide screen presentation, but what I really enjoyed was the special features. The interactive menus are excellent and grant access to quite a lot of interesting information like lengthy biographies, interviews, history of the back lots at Disney studios, promotional stills and advertising material for the movie, a synopsis of what was going on at Walt Disney in 1975 (the year this movie was released), and so much more.
There were a few scary parts, but they all ended with no one getting hurt and a some laughter. My 5 year old said Don Knotts was the funiest.
This is one of those movies that might take older kids to get into, but the jokes are well crafted, and most impressively clean.
I will probably go ahead an purchase this, as the kids are definitely interested in watching it again.