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The Apple Dumpling Gang (Special Edition) | Year: 1975 Classification: Feature Film Family Directed: - Norman Tokar Actors/Actresses: - Tim Conway - Don Knotts - Bill Bixby - Susan Clark Great Family Entertainment This is the first movie my parents ever took me to. I now have the chance to share it with my nephews on video and they love it as much as I do. Its a children's movie that also gives adults a chance to chuckle. Don Knotts and Tim Conway are classic slapstick. First they blew into town... then they BLEW IT UP! I bought this movie out of a sense of nostalgia, being a child of the seventies. Watching this movie now, it didn't quite hold up as well as I remembered, but it is somewhat entertaining, and I would feel comfortable showing it to my nieces and nephews, given its' lack of anything that could be considered even remotely offensive. The plot has Donovan (Bill Bixby), a bachelor and small time hustler of sorts, getting stuck with the care of three orphan children. As he tries to unburden himself of his three wards, he finds the townspeople to be less than receptive to the idea of taking in the children. These orphans hold the deed to a goldmine, thought by everyone to be dried up, but an earthquake turns up a huge gold nugget, and now the townspeople are falling over themselves to take cu he becomes as morally questionable as the prostitutes themselves. At the end he is still divided as to what is the best life for young Violet. So among everything else in the movie you have this little allegory of the bohemian artist as well. Music throughout is by piano professor Jellyroll Morton who is thanked in a note at the end of the picture. Malle is a director who never made a bad picture, and never made an ordinary one as well. One of my all time favorite directors. Also recommended by Malle: M nes. I liked the movie. I would have given the fil rban slums as a perfect juxtaposition between the paradise people believe Jamaica to be and the harsh reality of its cities. The camerawork is gritty an epulsive extrava Buy The Apple Dumpling Gang at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on The Apple Dumpling Gang Search with the Priority Search Engine on The Apple Dumpling Gang This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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