Even as he hits his 80th birthday in December, he remains highly active as a voiceover actor in countless cartoons including “Spongebob Squarepants,” as a guest star on sitcoms such as the hit “Hot in Cleveland,” and even in a nationally touring show where he scores laughs with other veteran comics on stages nationwide. Gary Arnold of The Washington Post dismissed it as 'the latest uninspired attempt at juvenile comedy from the Disney studio'.Shares 0 Facebook Tweet Pin Email SMS By Carl Kozlowski, Contributing WriterĬomedy legend Tim Conway won six Emmys in his 11 seasons as one of the stars of the legendary THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW before starring in a seemingly endless string of funny family films with Don Knotts (THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG). Indeed, it's more inventive - and eventful - than the more sophisticated comedy-western Butch and Sundance: The Early Days. Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called the film 'delightful' with 'much humor and action. When hamburger trademarks become chief yock-suppliers, time has come to look elsewhere'.

Conway and Knotts have perfected their bumbling routines to a very minor art form, but principal laughs are supplied by drunk jokes, and character names such as Jack Elam's Big Mac. Variety wrote that the film 'lurches from one set piece to another, in a fashion that makes its 88-minute running time seem much longer. Vincent Canby of The New York Times thought that Kenneth Mars was 'very funny' and that Harry Morgan 'has some nice moments' as well. The railroad scenes were filmed on the Sierra Railroad in Tuolumne County, California. Parts of the film were shot at Kanab movie fort and Kanab Creek in Utah.

Ted Gehring as Hank Starrett (Bank robber).

Cliff Osmond as Wes Hardin (Bank robber).

Audrey Totter as Martha Osten (Blind Cabin Widow).

Ruth Buzzi as Old Tough Kate, aka 'Granny'.

Kenneth Mars as Marshal Woolly Bill Hitchcock.Soon after being given pardons, Amos and Theodore decide to resume working at Russell Donovan's farm. 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 Gaskill's daughter Millie (Davalos), they arrest the robbers and their inside man Lt. After dressing up as bar-room dance girls to hide themselves from Big Mac's gang, having another encounter with Hitchcock, and making a trade for blankets to hide themselves, Amos and Theodore accidentally end up on the train Big Mac is targeting. The sheriff not available, they are told to visit the saloon as there is a visiting U.S. Still determined to go straight, the boys attempt to extricate themselves from the situation by warning the local sheriff. The following day, the fort commander Major Gaskill (Morgan) is relieved of his position while Amos and Theodore are placed in a military jail.īut 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.

But the duo's bunglings and a run-in with a now insane marshal, who found them by following Clarise, result in the fort being burned to the ground. To escape Hitchcock's vengeance, Amos and Theodore ditch their donkey Clarise, as she was used by the robbers, and enlist in the United States Cavalry at Fort Concho. Things worsen when Amos and Theodore end up suspected of the robbery and on the run from the town's feared lawman Marshal Woolly Bill Hitchcock (Mars), who developed a personal vendetta toward Amos and Theodore after they accidentally humiliated and injured him on two occasions. But the duo end up causing havoc while getting cheated out of their money by two bank robbers named Wes Hardin (Osmond) and Hank Starrett (Gehring). The film also stars Tim Matheson, Harry Morgan, and Kenneth Mars.Īmos Tucker (Conway) and Theodore Ogelvie (Knotts), a pair of bumbling holdup men now going straight, arrive in the 'boom town' of Junction City to start anew. Produced by Walt Disney Productions, it is a sequel to The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975), starring the comedy duo of Tim Conway and Don Knotts reprising their respective roles as Amos and Theodore.

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again is a 1979 American comedy- Western film directed by Vincent McEveety.

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