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''[[The Apple Dumpling Gang]]'' is 1971 novel written by Jack Bickham. A film of the novel was later converted into a movie by [[Disney]] produced in 1975 and spawning a sequel film, ''The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again'' which aired in 1979. The initial movie is noteworthy for being the most successful Disney film of the [[The Seventies|1970s]].
The story of the novel and movie follows a group of orphaned children during the California gold rush. They encounter a gambler who reluctantly helps them, as well as a pair of hapless robbers who are after the gold the children have found. Dusty the female stagecoach driver is persuaded to marry the gambler who is currently taking care of them in an attempt to keep the children off the streets and away from those who would take thier gold from them. Meanwhile Amos and Theodore's former boss also tries to steal the gold and ends up kidnapping the children.
Conway and Knotts play the leads in the sequel, in which Bixby and the rest of the original cast don't appear.
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