With Six You Get Eggroll (1968)

Abby McClure, a widow with three sons, and Jake Iverson, a widower with a teen-age daughter, get fixed up. They start dating and decide to get married. They're not prepared for the hostile ... See full summary »

Director:

Howard Morris

Writers:

Gwen Bagni (screenplay), Paul Dubov (screenplay),

Stars:

Doris Day, Brian Keith, Pat Carroll

1 win.

Cast

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

Storyline

Abby McClure, a widow with three sons, and Jake Iverson, a widower with a teen-age daughter, get fixed up. They start dating and decide to get married. They're not prepared for the hostile reactions from their children, especially Jake's daughter Stacy, who wants to be the woman of the house, and Abby's oldest son Flip, who hates Jake.

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Plot Keywords:

widow | matchmaker | marriage | widower | quarrel | 

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Taglines:

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

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance

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Certificate:

G

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

7 August 1968 (USA)

Also Known As:

A Man in Mommy's Bed

Company Credits

Production Co:

Arwin Productions, Cinema Center Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The Grassroots is the band that performed the song "Feelings" in a nightclub.

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Goofs

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.

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Quotes

Zip: Thou art cool!

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Crazy Credits

The opening credits are animated in the style of a series of children's crayon drawings. The Art Director credit is misspelled, comically and deliberately as "ART DER," scratched out, misspelled again as "ART DUR," scratched out again, the entire page is crumpled, and the credit finally appears, correct and not animated, on the following screen.

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Connections

Referenced in Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Castle of Fu-Manchu (1992)

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Soundtracks

"Feelings"
Written by R. Coonce, W. Entner, K. Fukomoto
Performed by The Grassroots

User Reviews

Dreary Day

The 60's weren't too kind to Doris Day. She reportedly turned down The Graduate, and did Caprice(67) Jumbo(62) Send Me No Flowers(64) Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?(68) Do Not Disturb(65) The Glass Bottom Boat(66) The Ballad of Josie(67) and Move Over, Darling(63) instead. With Six You Get Eggroll, what an awful title! is the last, though not necessarily the least of the dreary bunch. This was Barbara Hershey's first film and Doris' last and that's about the most interesting thing about this poky sitcom posing as a theatrical film. Similar to The Brady Bunch, Yours, Mine and Ours(68), and Day's own TV series, With Six YOu Get Eggroll was released the same year as 2001:A Space Odyssey, Rosemary's Baby, Faces, Planet of the Apes, Wild in the Streets, Pretty Poison, and The Night of the Living Dead, and it's a dull and witless comedy that was a relic even in 1968. And the gratuitous appearance of the Grass Roots, and the hippies in the background are a hopeless attempt to seem up to date. Talented Brian Keith takes a back seat to a bunch of "cute" kids, George Carlin, and a dog. Starting with an animated title sequence, the whole thing looks cheap and ugly, and the supporting cast made up of familiar faces from TV is unappealing and forgettable.