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Release Date: 1975

Cast: Iris Adrian, Harry Morgan, Brad Savage, John McGiver, Slim Pickens, Dennis Fimple, Susan Clark, Don Knight, David Wayne, Pepe Callahan, Don Knotts, Tim Conway ...MORE

Cast: Iris Adrian, Harry Morgan, Brad Savage, John McGiver, Slim Pickens, Dennis Fimple, Susan Clark, Don Knight, David Wayne, Pepe Callahan, Don Knotts, Tim Conway, Bill Bixby, Stacy Manning, Clay O'Brien ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Comedy Western, Children's/Family, Comedy, Children's, Family Film, Slapstick

The Apple Dumpling Gang is a 1975 Disney film about slick gambler Russel Donavan (played by Bill Bixby) who is duped into taking care of a group of orphan children who eventually strike gold during the California Gold Rush. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Jack Bickham. The eponymous gang is named after the American dessert, the apple dumpling. 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 by Randy... MORE

The Apple Dumpling Gang is a 1975 Disney film about slick gambler Russel Donavan (played by Bill Bixby) who is duped into taking care of a group of orphan children who eventually strike gold during the California Gold Rush. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Jack Bickham. The eponymous gang is named after the American dessert, the apple dumpling. 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 by Randy Sparks and The Back Porch Majority. Tagline: Wanted: For chicanery, skulduggery, tomfoolery and habitual bungling! The film costars Tim Conway and Don Knotts as a pair of bumbling holdup men who try to steal gold, but are later offered it by a group of children. Conway and Knotts play the leads in the sequel (The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again), in which Bixby and the rest of the original cast – with the exception of Harry Morgan as the sheriff – do not appear. It also features Susan Clark as the stagecoach driver who is persuaded to marry the gambler in an attempt for both of them to keep custody of LESS