With Six You Get Eggroll (1968)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Director:

Howard Morris

Writers:

R.S. Allen (writer)
Gwen Bagni (screenplay)

Release Date:

7 August 1968 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance

Tagline:

ANOTHER DELIGHTFUL TREAT FOR THE THOUSANDS WHO ENJOYED "YOURS, MINE and OURS"! (original print ad - almost all caps)

Plot:

Abby McClure, a widow with three sons, and Jake Iverson, a widower with a teen-age daughter, get fixed up...

Plot Keywords:

Widow | Widower | Truck Driver | Hippie | Police

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Doris Day	...	Abby McClure
Brian Keith	...	Jake Iverson
Pat Carroll	...	Maxine Scott
Barbara Hershey	...	Stacy Iverson
George Carlin	...	Herbie Fleck
Alice Ghostley	...	Molly the Maid
John Findlater	...	Flip McClure
Elaine Devry	...	Cleo Ruskin
Herb Voland	...	Harry Scott
Jamie Farr	...	Jo Jo
William Christopher	...	Zip (Cloud)
Milton Frome	...	Bud Young
Allan Melvin	...	Desk Sergeant
Richard S. Steele	...	Jason McClure (as Richard Steel)
Jimmy Bracken	...	Mitch McClure

Also Known As:

A Man in Mommy's Bed
With 6 You Get Eggroll (Australia) (TV title)

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | USA:G

Company:

Arwin Productions

Trivia:

The final scenes of this film feature Doris Day teary-eyed, wearing a housecoat and slippers. When her husband of 17 years Martin Melcher died suddenly just after production was completed, gossip magazines at the time used stills of Day from this movie, looking distraught and out-of-sorts, to accompany their articles about Melcher's death.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the scene where Abby and Jake are arguing in the camper, Jake removes his shoes but not his socks. He then drops the shoes to the floor and puts his bare feet up on the seat across from him.

Quotes:

Abby McClure: [During a raucous party] If this wasn't my house I'd go home!

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in With Sex You Get Eggroll (1999) (V)

Soundtrack:

Feelings

Maybe Doris Day wasn't all bad...

My mom always tells me about how idiotically bad Doris Day's movies were: Day always played wholesome women who never had sex. I guess that Day figured that her final film appearance should be something more realistic. She plays widow Abby McClure, who hooks up with widower Jake Iverson (Brian Keith), and they get really close.

"With Six You Get Eggroll" - so called because of a scene in a Chinese restaurant - seems like a precursor to "The Brady Bunch" (accentuated by the presence of Allan Melvin, who played Alice's hubby Sam in the latter). It's not a great movie by any stretch, but it is pretty humorous in some scenes - namely the "yellow" scene. Also starring are Barbara Hershey, George Carlin, Vic Tayback, and Alice Ghostley (aka Esmerelda on "Bewitched").