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The Apple Dumpling Gang

Wanted: For chicanery, skulduggery, tomfoolery and habitual bungling!

1975 · 1h 40m · G Comedy, Family, Western
Directed by Norman Tokar

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Overview

A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws to fend off the greedy townspeople and soon find themselves facing a surly gang of sharpshooters.

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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.

Richard Eder, New York Times
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Everytime I see one of these antiseptic Disney films, I'm reminded of the thrills and genuine artistry that went into the studio's films during its golden age in the 1940s and 1950s.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

The traditional ingredients of homely moralising, sentimentality and raucous slapstick are used sparingly, the dialogue is fairly bright, some visual gags are neatly executed.

Time Out

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