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:

Jamie Farr and William Christopher play supporting roles in this film as two hippie bikers. Five years before the two would co-star as Cpl. Max Klinger and Father John Mulcahey on "M*A*S*H" (1972).

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:

Molly the Maid: [in front of Jake, Abby's date for the evening] Mrs. McClure! Now I need to put the meat on broil but your hair is on bake. Which should I do first?
Abby McClure: [humiliated] I think the *hair*, Molly.
Molly the Maid: False hair, false eyelashes, false bosoms. In my day women were flesh and blood, now they're 70% nylon and 30% foam rubber.

Movie Connections:

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

Soundtrack:

Feelings

Just a step above the average 60s sitcom episode

Doris Day ended her film career with this rather lame little movie, one of many contributions to the "Let's-join-our-families-together" genre of the late 60s. "Your, Mine and Ours" covered the same material, only better, and "The Brady Bunch" brought it all to fruition a year later.

The film wants to combine the standard Doris Day "sex farce" of the period, with a typical 60s family sitcom, and the results are disappointing, at best.

The children are a bratty bunch, and the early screeching scenes almost made me turn the whole thing off. I did love seeing the styles, architecture and culture of the period, however, as I was a kid at the time of its release, myself. No, my parents didn't take me to see this - not surprising, being that this "G" rated movie likes to use the word "sex" quite a bit, and nobody is exactly a role-model. My first viewing was last night on TCM.

I really hope that the Academy presents DD with an Honorary Oscar before she dies, but I consider this film to be an unfortunate footnote to her career.