The Apple Dumpling Gang
1975
| Buena Vista Distribution Company | Release Date: July 1, 1975 |
Starring:
Bill Bixby, Clay O'Brien, David Wayne, Don Knight, Don Knotts, Harry Morgan, John McGiver, Slim Pickens, Susan Clark, Tim Conway
Summary:
Three orphan children strike gold in 1878 California.
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The traditional ingredients of homely moralising, sentimentality and raucous slapstick are used sparingly, the dialogue is fairly bright, some visual gags are neatly executed, even Knotts is bearable, and Susan Clark makes an auspicious Disney debut as the Calamity Jane-type heroine.
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A rather pleasant period comedy that made quite a sum of money for the studio in its economically weak post-Walt period. A delightful cast of character actors helps the childish story, with Conway and Knotts beginning what would become a somewhat famous, but very simple-minded, film comedy duo.
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Walt Disney started by making movies in which animated drawings played the parts of people or animals who stood for people. Later he turned to making movies in which people or animals play the parts of animated drawings. They bound, they double-take, they simper when moved and quack when angry. Their disasters—crashes, plunges through space, explosions—are weightless. The Apple Dumpling Gang is a fair example.
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