Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again Cast

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1979 moving picture past Vincent McEveety

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Over again
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Directed by	Vincent McEveety
Written by	Don Tait
Produced by	Tom Leetch Ron Due west. Miller
Starring	Tim Conway Don Knotts Tim Matheson Kenneth Mars Jack Elam
Cinematography	Frank 5. Phillips
Edited by	Gordon Brenner
Music by	Paul J. Smith Buddy Baker Joseph S. Dubin (orchestration)
Production company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed past	Buena Vista Distribution
Release appointment	June 27, 1979 (1979-06-27)
Running fourth dimension	88 minutes
Country	U.s.
Language	English
Box office	$20,931,111^[1]

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Once again is a 1979 American comedy-Western flick directed by Vincent McEveety. Produced by Walt Disney Productions, it is a sequel to The Apple tree Dumpling Gang (1975), starring the comedy duo of Tim Conway and Don Knotts reprising their corresponding roles as Amos and Theodore. The picture too stars Tim Matheson, Harry Morgan, and Kenneth Mars.

Plot [edit]

Amos Tucker (Conway) and Theodore Ogelvie (Knotts), a pair of bumbling holdup men now going straight, arrive in the "blast town" of Junction City to start anew. But the duo stop up causing havoc while getting cheated out of their money by two bank robbers named Wes Hardin (Osmond) and Hank Starrett (Gehring). Things worsen when Amos and Theodore end upward suspected of the robbery and on the run from the town'south feared lawman Marshal Woolly Nib Hitchcock (Mars), who developed a personal vendetta toward Amos and Theodore after they accidentally humiliated and injured him on two occasions. To escape Hitchcock's vengeance, Amos and Theodore ditch their donkey Clarise, as she was used past the robbers, and enlist in the United States Cavalry at Fort Concho. But the duo's bunglings and a run-in with a at present insane align, who found them by post-obit Clarise, result in the fort being burned to the footing. The following day, the fort commander Major Gaskill (Morgan) is relieved of his position while Amos and Theodore are placed in a military jail.

Just the "jail" turns out to be a cover for a robber baron named "Big Mac" (Jack Elam) who proceeds to recruit Amos and Theodore for an upcoming train robbery. All the same adamant to go straight, the boys effort to extricate themselves from the state of affairs by alarm the local sheriff. The sheriff not available, they are told to visit the saloon as there is a visiting U.South. Marshall. Afterwards dressing up every bit bar-room trip the light fantastic toe girls to hibernate themselves from Large Mac's gang, having another run across with Hitchcock, and making a trade for blankets to hide themselves, Amos and Theodore accidentally end upward on the railroad train Big Mac is targeting. With the aid of Jeff Reed (Matheson), an army intelligence officer who posed equally an enlisted soldier to uncover a conspiracy of armed services robberies, and Major Gaskil's daughter Millie (Davalos), they abort the robbers and their inside human Lt. Jim Ravencroft (Robert Pine). Soon later on existence given pardons, Amos and Theodore decide to resume working at Russell Donovan's subcontract.

Bandage [edit]

Tim Conway as Amos Tucker
Don Knotts as Theodore Ogelvie
Tim Matheson as Pvt. Jeff Reed
Kenneth Mars every bit Marshal Woolly Nib Hitchcock
Elyssa Davalos as Miss Millie Gaskill
Jack Elam every bit Big Mack
Robert Pine as Lt. Jim Ravencroft
Harry Morgan every bit Maj. Gaskill (Millie's begetter)
Ruth Buzzi as Old Tough Kate, aka 'Granny'
Audrey Totter equally Martha Osten (Blind Cabin Widow)
Richard X. Slattery as Sgt. Slaughter (chief soldier)
John Crawford as Sherick
Ralph Manza as Fiddling Guy
Cliff Osmond as Wes Hardin (Banking concern robber)
Ted Gehring equally Hank Starrett (Bank robber)
Morgan Paull as Corporal #one
Gary McLarty as Corporal #2
Nick Ramus equally Native American chief
Bryan O'Byrne as Photographer
Robert Totten equally Blainey
James Almanzar as Lennie
Shug Fisher as Bartender
King Holman equally Reno
Roger Mobley as Sentry #1
Vince Deadrick Jr. as Lookout man #2
Stu Gilliam as Black Cook
A.J. Bakunas as Henchmen #1
David S. Cass Sr. as Henchmen #two
Louie Elias as Henchmen #3
James Van Patten every bit Young Soldier on Railroad train #i
Jay Ripley as Young Soldier on Train #2
George Chandler as Elderly Man (Right outside the Police Function)
Jack Perkins as Junction City Boondocks Drunk
John Wheeler as Conductor
Art Evans as Luggage Master
Ed McCready every bit Citizen #ane
Ted Jordan equally Citizen #2
Peter Renaday as Jailer at Fort
Bobby Rolofson as Boy
Tom Jackman as Officer #1
Beak Hart as Officer #2
Joe Baker as Prisoner Joe
Allan Studley as Prisoner Pete
Michael Masters as Cowboy
John Arndt as Cavalry Man #i
Bill Erickson every bit Cavalry Man #2
Mickey Gilbert as Tough #ane
Sierra Railway No. 3

Production [edit]

Parts of the moving-picture show were shot at Kanab movie fort and Kanab Creek in Utah.^[2]

Reception [edit]

Vincent Canby of The New York Times thought that Kenneth Mars was "very funny" and that Harry Morgan "has some nice moments" as well.^[3] Multifariousness wrote that the film "lurches from i set piece to another, in a way that makes its 88-minute running fourth dimension seem much longer. Conway and Knotts have perfected their bumbling routines to a very minor fine art course, but principal laughs are supplied by drunk jokes, and graphic symbol names such as Jack Elam's Big Mac. When hamburger trademarks get primary yock-suppliers, time has come to await elsewhere."^[4] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called the picture "delightful," with "much sense of humor and activeness. Indeed, it's more inventive — and eventful — than the more sophisticated comedy-western 'Butch and Sundance: The Early Days.'"^[five] Gary Arnold of The Washington Postal service dismissed information technology every bit "the latest uninspired try at juvenile comedy from the Disney studio."^[6]

References [edit]

^ Meridian-grossing Grand-rated films. Boxofficemojo.com.
^ D'Arc, James V. (2010). When Hollywood came to town: a history of moviemaking in Utah (1st ed.). Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith. ISBN9781423605874.
^ Canby, Vincent (August 31, 1979). "Moving picture: A Comic Romp In Apple Dumpling State". The New York Times. C13.
^ "Pic Reviews: The Apple Dumping Gang Rides Again". Variety. June 20, 1979. 19.
^ Thomas, Kevin (July 11, 1979). "'Apple Dumpling': Summer Fun Fare". Los Angeles Times. Part Four, p. 10.
^ Arnold, Gary (July xviii, 1979). "Bumbling 'Dumpling'". The Washington Post. E6.