The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

Infobox Film
name = The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again


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caption = Promotional poster
director = Vincent McEveety
producer = Tom Leetch
Ron W. Miller
writer = Don Tait
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starring = Tim Conway
Don Knotts
Tim Matheson
Kenneth Mars
Jack Elam
music = Buddy Baker
cinematography = Frank Phillips
editing = Gordon Brenner
distributor = Buena Vista Pictures
released = June 27, 1979
runtime = 88 minutes
country = flagicon|USA
language = English
budget =
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preceded_by = The Apple Dumpling Gang
followed_by =
website =
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imdb_id = 0078790

"The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again" is a 1979 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.

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 Amos and Theodore 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.

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

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