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This film is pure nostalgia for me. It's the first film I ever saw in a
theater (I was three in 1975). Growing up in the 1970s, this film seemed
to have all the "big names" like Don Knotts (soon to join "Three's Company"),
Bill Bixby (soon to become the "Incredible Hulk"), and Tim Conway (of "Carol
Burnett Show" fame). As I grew, I never lost my love for this movie. It has
moments of slapstick comedy (of which Knotts and Conway are undisputed
kings), an entertaining little plot, and even a love story. In the end,
however, it's the "loveableness" of the two bumbling, wannabe crooks that
steals the show -- they may want to rob the town blind, but they somehow
have hearts of gold.
This wonderful movie seems quite simplistic at first glance - a bachelor
who inherits three "wittle" kids in a Western town. Why does The Apple
Dumpling Gang work then? It's all because of Don Knotts and Tim
Conway's incredible performances as Theodore and Amos, two gangsters who
live outside the city limits. Their antics can't help but make you
laugh, whether being held up by children, wandering around the firehouse
in the middle of the night, or trying to steal the gold nugget. That
alone should be enough for anyone to love this movie. The Special
Edition DVD, though only one-disc, is well worth the purchase.
Western with some laughs
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