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The Apple Dumpling Gang / The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

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Both of these movies are extremely entertaining and suitable for the entire family. The Apple Dumpling Gang is better than its sequel due to the interactions of all of the major stars. Susan Clark is excellent as Dusty, and Bill Bixby is wonderful and believable as Donovan. The children do an excellent job and appear to have good on screen presence. I would recommend it for children of all ages, including adults who are young at heart.

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again is good, but it relies more on slapstick than the first movie. You miss the parts of Dusty and Donovan and the children. It is also a little confusing that Harry Morgan plays in both productions, but plays two separate characters. They could have said that he was the Justice of the Peace's twin brother or a look alike relative. Of course he always does an excellent performance in whatever part he plays.

This great DVD package combines two of Disney's classic movies - The Apple Dumpling Gang and The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again. The movies document the careers of Amos Tucker (played by Tim Conway) and Theodore Ogelvie (Don Knotts), two of the most incompetent outlaws to ride the Old West.

In The Apple Dumpling Gang, cardsharp and conman Russel Donovan (Bill Bixby) is conned into taking on three children. But, when they involve Amos and Theodore in his life, things quickly go from bad to worse.

In The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, Amos and Theodore come out of retirement, right in time to fall afoul of Marshal Woolly Bill Hitchcock (Kenneth Mars), who is determined to stop the Apple Dumpling Gang dead in its tracks...literally. So, where can they hide?

Overall, I found these to be two great movies. The Apple Dumpling Gang has a better defined plot, and Bill Bixby and Susan Clark do an excellent job of providing a romantic, if not entirely serious, side to the movie. The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again is indeed more slapstick - Don Knotts and Tim Conway stole the first movie, and as such they are given free rein in this one - perhaps too much, as the movie does seem to have a much less cohesive plot than the first.

But, no matter how you slice it, this is a great DVD set, one that is sure to please the family. As a matter of fact, beyond the two movies there is a great Goofy cartoon - Two Gun Goofy. Yeah, this is a great DVD set, one that should be in the library of every family with young one around...or even those just young at heart. My family and I really enjoyed this set, and we highly recommend it to you and your family.

These movies are great family movies and are full of laughter and great comedy. I would recommend these to anyone that wants their funny bone tickled. Good Clean Fun!!!

Such a good laugh. So ridiculous I could go into neutral, relax and let my troubles get lost for a while. Two good actors that make a fool of themselves to make us laugh.

Good, clean fun...the way it should be. Classic family movies that are still entertaining. We love them. Good quality playback without all the "extras" usually loaded onto DVDs or stuffed into the cases. Just good movies.

I really love guys as a duo. The second movie is the funniest. The Whole family can enjoy these good old clean and funny comedies.

Great service on purchase of our video. We had our product within a week. Thanks for your prompt service!! Would gladly purchase from this dealer again.

Saw each of these when they originally came out. Don Knotts and Tim Conway are a great comedy team. We were glad to see them again, and our grandson, who had never seen them laughed his head off.

The summer camp I went to/worked at had a copy of 'The Apple Dumpling Gang' to show during rainy afternoons. So I can still pretty much quote the movie verbatim. I still enjoy it-- Tim Conway and Don Knotts are just hysterical, and now that I know Carey Grant's work better, watching Bill Bixby work in this movie is even more enjoyable.

I tried this out on my preschooler son. He is now old enough to watch it...and watch it...and watch it... Nothing really scary, clean dialogue... not even Disney makes them like this anymore. A real shame. Some great nostalgia for adults and a great choice for young families.

'The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides again' just capitalizes on the Tim Conway/Don Knotts teamwork... with much less success. Like all comedy duo movies, the team works better interwoven with a real plot, which in this second movie never really gets going-- most of the time is taken up with the Conway/Knotts business. They're great together, and Kenneth Mars (Young Frankenstein) does a good job as the insane marshal... but the plot is thin. It also has too much violence for the under-5s. This disc will just never get out of its box again. If I could have purchased The Apple dumpling Gang by itself, I would have.

We have movie nights during the summer and I try to find movies that my kids haven't seen and that most of their friends haven't seen. That typically leaves me looking for movies from the 70s-80s. I saw both of the Apple Dumpling Gang movies growing up and now I have shared them with my family and they are just as funny as they were when I was a kid. These are free from bad language and sexual innuendo. They are full of hysterical antics of the bumbling burglars. Highly recommended. This one still gets pulled out and laughed at while some of the others are left collecting dust on the shelf.