The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again is a 1979 sequel to Walt Disney Productions 1975 family film The Apple Dumpling Gang starring the comedy duo of Tim Conway, and Don Knotts. Conway and Knotts reprise their roles as Amos and Theodore. The film also stars Tim Matheson, Harry Morgan, and Kenneth Mars. LaughIn star Ruth Buzzi appears in a small cameo as a wild farsighted woman. Robert Totten, who directed installments of Gunsmoke, also had a small part in the film.

But the jail turns out to be a cover for a robber baron named Big Mac Jack Elam who proceeds to recruit Amos and Theodore for an upcoming train robbery. Still determined to go straight, the boys attempt to extricate themselves from the situation by attempting to warn the local sheriff. The sheriff not available, they are told to visit the saloon as there is a visiting U.S. Marshall. After dressing up as barroom dance girls to hide themselves from Big Macs gang, having another encounter with Hitchcock and making a trade for blankets to hid themselves, Amos and Theodore accidentally end up on the train Big Mac is targeting before. Amos and Theodore, with the help of Jeff Reed Matheson, an army intelligence officer who posed as an enlisted soldier to uncover a conspiracy of military robberies, and Major Gaskils daughter Millie Davalos, they arrest the robbers and their inside man Lt. Jim Ravencroft Robert Pine. Soon after given pardons, Amos and Theodore decide to resume working at Russell Donovans farm.

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