The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
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| The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again | |
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 Promotional poster |
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| Directed by | Vincent McEveety |
| Produced by | Tom Leetch Ron W. Miller |
| Written by | Don Tait |
| Starring | Tim Conway Don Knotts Tim Matheson Kenneth Mars Jack Elam |
| Music by | Buddy Baker |
| Cinematography | Frank Phillips |
| Editing by | Gordon Brenner |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
| Release date(s) | June 27, 1979 |
| Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country |  |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | The Apple Dumpling Gang |
| IMDb profile | |
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again is a sequel to the 1975 family hit The Apple Dumpling Gang starring the comedy duo of Tim Conway, and Don Knotts. Conway and Knotts reprise their roles as Amos and Theodore. The film also stars Tim Matheson, Harry Morgan, and Kenneth Mars. Laugh-In star Ruth Buzzi appears in a small cameo as a wild farsighted woman.
[edit] Plot
Amos (Conway) and Theodore (Knotts), the old bank robbers turned good guys, arrive in the "boom town" of Junction City, and cause havoc from the start. The duo – who had promised to go straight after the events of the first film – get into trouble when they are framed for robbery at the town bank. The robbers trick them into depositing their money, and then run off with it. The town's feared lawman, Wooly Bill Hitchcock (Mars), is determined to capture the gang and punish them for their crime, but when he catches them at the bank and attempts to arrest them, their guns accidentally go off and hit Wooly Bill in the hands as witnesses look on. The accident not only makes Amos and Theodore the new "quick guns" in the town, but it makes the humiliated lawman even more determined to capture the "Apple Dumpling Gang" (as they are now called, since Theodore advised them not to use their own names in the new town.) Things get worse when their donkey Clarise (who joined them from the first film) shows up with the stolen money when the real bank robbers in a hurry put most of the money on her saddle. As they attempt to return it by swinging it from the roof of the building across from the building, the bags land on Wooly Bill and cause even more injuries to him.
[edit] Cast
Tim Conway ... Amos Tucker
Don Knotts ... Theodore Olevie
Tim Matheson ... Pvt. Jeff Reed
Kenneth Mars ... Marshal Woolly Bill Hitchcock
Elyssa Davalos ... Milly Gaskill (Miss Gaskill)
Jack Elam ... Big Mack
Robert Pine ... Lt. Jim Ravencroft
Harry Morgan ... Maj. Gaskill (Milly's dad)
Ruth Buzzi ... Old Tough Kate, aka 'Granny'
Audrey Totter ... Martha Osten (Blind Cabin Widow)
Richard X. Slattery ... Sgt. Slaughter (chief soldier)
John Crawford ... Sherick
Cliff Osmond ... Wes Hardin (Bank-robber)
Ted Gehring ... Hank Starrett (Bank-robber)
Morgan Paull ... Corporal #1
[edit] Quotes
- Theodore- We got to put some distance between us and this town or it's going to become our permanent residence, and I mean permanent.
- Amos- Where is your horn, Little Boy Blue?
- Amos- Our picture's never going to get in the history books now.
- Theodore- Oh, yes it will. We'll go down as numbers 16 or 17 shot by Marshall Wooly Bill Hitchcock.
- Theodore- First thing we're going to do is open a bank account.
- Amos- Now, is that different from opening a safe.
- "Come here boys ha ha ha ha ha!" -Wooly Bill Hitchcock
- "Don't eat the flowers Jeff, there's more!" -Martha
