The Apple Dumpling Gang

Last cinema film of Bill Bixby.

When Amos and Theodore are handling the dynamite, they keep saying it will go off if it hits the floor. Dynamite requires a special chemical reaction to be set off, hitting the floor is not enough. However in a previous scene, the bank owner proclaims that the dynamite is "sweating" meaning that a simple drop could set it off. "Sweating" dynamite is extremely dangerous, as this "sweat" is nitroglycerin! In the time period of this film, dynamite was made of sawdust saturated in nitroglycerin, which could be exploded by a bullet hit or striking it against something.

Featured in Disney Through the Decades (2001)