...once again managed to hit the mother lode in 1975 with the release of the Apple Dumpling Gang. Following a trio of orphans who are fostered with a quite unwilling Russel Donovan, who also happens to be a hopelessly inept gambler, we are treated to some of the very best comic slapstick ever to grace the screen. Poor Mr Donovan is literally duped into holding onto "some valuables" which he is most dismayed to discover are three little vagabonds. The ... ...lots of attention and greed. The townspeople want that gold, so insist it is kept at the bank, and that the children and Mr Donovan cannot touch it. The gold just seems to bring trouble, so the children decide to give it away after meeting two hapless bandits. Forming The Apple Dumpling Gang with the bandits, they hatch a plan to rob the bank in order to retrieve their own gold, promising that the bandits can keep it all for themselves. What they ...
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