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      • The Apple Dumpling Gang is a 1971 novel by Jack Bickham, about a group of orphaned children during the California gold rush. They encounter a gambler who reluctantly helps them, as well as a pair of hapless robbers who are after the gold the children have found. In 1975 Disney made a film based on the book.
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  2. The Apple Dumpling Gang is a 1975 American comedy-Western film directed by Norman Tokar. It is about a slick gambler named Russell Donovan ( Bill Bixby ) who is duped into taking care of three orphans who eventually strike gold.

  3. The Apple Dumpling Gang: Directed by Norman Tokar. With Bill Bixby, Susan Clark, Don Knotts, Tim Conway. Three orphan children strike gold in 1878 California.

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    • Comedy, Family, Western
    • Norman Tokar
    • 1975-07-01
  4. The Apple Dumpling Gang is a 1971 novel by Jack Bickham, about a group of orphaned children during the California gold rush. They encounter a gambler who reluctantly helps them, as well as a pair of hapless robbers who are after the gold the children have found.

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    Set in the Wild West in the year 1879, a slick gambler named Russell Donovan (Bill Bixby) comes to the town of Quake City en route to open a casino in New Orleans. In Quake City, Donovan meets his old associate, John Whintle. Whintle is leaving for San Francisco that night and asks Donovan to sign for valuables coming in on tomorrow's stagecoach. D...

    Bill Bixby - Russell Donovan
    Susan Clark - Magnolia Dusty Clydesdale
    Don Knotts - Theodore Ogelvie
    Tim Conway - Amos Tucker

    The film was a hit at the box office and was the most successful Disney film of the 1970s. In October 1980, it became one of the first Disney movies to be released on videocassette. It is also known as being the first film to feature the comedy duo of Don Knotts and Tim Conway. They developed different styles of pulling off their comedy; Conway's c...

    In 1979, Knotts and Conway reprised their roles in the unsuccessful sequel The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again. Bill Bixby, Susan Clark, and the rest of the cast did not appear. Harry Morgan was the only other member of the cast to appear in it, although he plays a different character. Without the presence of Bill Bixby, Susan Clark and the three c...

    During the final battle of Donovan and Frank Stillwell at the boat, Frank Stillwell's coughing after being saved from drowning by Donovan was reused from Jasper's coughing from 101 Dalmatians(1961).

    A copyright renewal for the film was registered on April 1, 2003.A copyright renewal for the story it is based on was also registered in the U.S.

  5. After three poor orphans are sent to live with gambler Russell Donovan (Bill Bixby), they discover they have actually inherited a large fortune from their dead father. Soon a series of greedy...

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  6. Three orphaned siblings are forced upon confirmed bachelor Donovan (Bill Bixby) in a nineteenth century boom town of Quake City, California. After an earthquake shakes the area, the children find a large gold nugget worth tens of thousands of dollars.

  7. With “The Apple Dumpling Gang,” we’re back to assembly line plots about the adventure of squeaky-clean kids. The kids this time are three orphans who are dumped in a California town to fend for themselves, and are eventually taken under the wings of a traveling gambler ( Bill Bixby ) and a lady stagecoach driver ( Susan Clark , looking ...

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