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 | Drive In Restaurant | Diva | Quarrel

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

Goofs:

Factual errors: Allan Melvin's first name is misspelled as 'Alan' in the opening credits, but correct in the closing credits.

Quotes:

Jason McClure: Can I sleep with you, Mommy?
Abby McClure: Go! Get moving!
Jake Iverson: There's nothing wrong with that. I was just going to ask you the same thing.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Animaniacs: With Three You Get Eggroll/Mermaid Mindy/Katie Ka-Boom: Call Waiting (#1.63)" (1994)

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.