The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

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The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again is a sequel to the 1975 family hit 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. Laugh-In star Ruth Buzzi appears in a small cameo and a wild farsighed woman.

[edit] Plot

Amos (Conway) and Theodore (Knotts), the old bank robbers turned good guys arrive in the "boom town" of Junction City, and cause havoc from the start. The duo (who had promised to go straight after the events of the first film) get into trouble when there are framed for robbery at the town bank when the robbers trick them to deposit their money, and then run off with their money. The town's feared lawman Wooly Bill Hitchcock (Mars) is determined to capture the gang and punish them for their crime, but when he catches them at the bank and attempts to arrest them, their guns accidentally go off and hit Wooly Bill in the hands as witnesses look on. The accident not only makes Amos and Theodore the new "quick guns" in the town, but it makes the humiliated lawman even more determined to capture the "Apple Dumpling Gang" (as they are now called, since Theodore advised them not to use their own names in the new town.) Things get worse when their donkey Clarise (who joined them from the first film) shows up with the stolen money when the real bank robbers in a hurry put most of the money on her saddle. As they attempt to return it by swinging it from the roof of the building across from the building, the bags land on Wooly Bill and cause even more injuries to him.

[edit] Quotes

• Theodore- We got to put some distance between us and this town or it's going to become our permanent residence, and I mean permanent.

• Amos- Where is your horn, Little Horn Blue?

• Amos- Our picture's never going to get in the history books now.
• Theodore- Oh, yes it will. We'll go down as numbers 16 or 17 shot by Marshall Wooly Bill Hitchcock.

• Theodore- First thing we're going to do is open a bank account.
• Amos- Now, is that different from opening a safe.

"Don't eat the flowers Jeff, there's more!" -Lady that Jeff stayed with in the woods