the apple dumpling gang

Director: norman tokar

Actor: bill bixby,susan clark,don knotts,tim conway

Data Published: Tue Jul 01 1975

Genres: Comedy,Family,Western

Key Words: bigfoot character,blockbuster,gold,outlaw,bank

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072653/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apple_Dumpling_Gang_(film)

Description: The Apple Dumpling Gang is a movie starring Bill Bixby, Susan Clark, and Don Knotts. Three orphan children strike gold in 1878 California.

Plot: Set in the year 1879, a slick gambler named Russell Donovan (Bill Bixby) arrives to town and finds himself duped into taking care of a trio of orphans with the town's sheriff, barber, Justice of the Peace, and judge Homer McCoy (Harry Morgan) telling him that he is legally obligated unless he can have someone else take custody of the children. By chance, the Bradley children end up finding gold with everyone in the town attempting to adopt the children from Donovan. Fearing they would not have the children's interests at heart, he arranged a marriage with the stagecoach driver Magnolia Dusty Clydesdale (Susan Clark) so they can keep custody of the Bradley children. However, things become complicated when their legal guardian returns. At the same time, a pair of bumbling holdup men named Amos Tucker (Tim Conway) and Theodore Ogelvie (Don Knotts) attempt to steal the Bradleys' gold before their former boss Frank Stillwell (Slim Pickens) kidnap the children while stealing the gold. But it ends with the gold nugget blown to bits, Stillwell arrested, and Donovan and Dusty keeping the Bradley children as they use the reward money for Stillwell's arrest to buy a farm and on their way a reformed Amos and Theodore catches up with the newfound family asking for work as farmhands, much to the dismay of Dusty's father, Col. T.R. Clydesdale (David Wayne).