With Six You Get Eggroll
by Howard Morris
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Actor: Barbara Hershey, Brian Keith, Doris Day, George Carlin, Pat CarrollDirector: Howard Morris
Brand: Paramount Pictures
Cinematographer: Ellsworth Fredericks
Cinematographer: Harry Stradling Jr.
Producer: Martin Melcher
Writer: Gwen Bagni
Writer: Harvey Bullock
Writer: Paul Dubov
Writer: R.S. Allen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-03
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of With Six You Get Eggroll
DVD Review: "There's a man in mommy's bed! There's a man in mommmmy's bed!"
Summary: 4 Stars
WITH SIX YOU GET EGGROLL is a 1968 romantic family comedy, and it marked Doris Day's bowing out of theatrical pictures. But the real life behind-the-scenes story couldn't have been more different from the tone of the movie. Shortly after the film's shooting had ended, Doris Day's husband and manager, Marty Melcher, died from heart disease. It was then that Doris learned that Melcher and his business partner had embezzled and frittered away her fortune into shaky investments. Moreover, unknown to her, Melcher had committed her to carry her own upcoming television series on CBS. Doris Day felt obligated to honor that contract, in part to make good on the debts Melcher had amassed. She did the DORIS DAY SHOW from 1968 to 1973 and also two television specials, after which she promptly called it quits from show business. WITH SIX YOU GET EGGROLL is a bit funnier than all that.
This film isn't Doris Day's best, I don't think anyone'll call me out on that. It may've even suffered from comparisons to Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda's similarly themed (and better) YOURS, MINE AND OURS, which came out earlier that same year. WITH SIX YOU GET EGGROLL rides on its good cast, on its smarts, on that affable chemistry between the two leads. Abby McClure (Day) is a middle-aged (but still cute) widow raising three boys. She runs a lumber yard adeptly and professes not to need a man in her life, even though her sister persists in setting her up. Chemical engineer Jake Iverson (Brian Keith, having brought his full-on gruff) is a widower bringing up his teenaged daughter Stacey (a young Barbara Hershey making her film debut). Abby and Jake are set up by Abby's sister, except that they get off on a rocky start. In cinema, a couple getting off on a rocky start is a spot-on indicator that they'll be locking lips by the time the film fades out.
It's a smart movie, as I've mentioned. The genuine humor surfaces from Day and Keith's interactions. These two stars seem to be channeling their inner Hepburn & Tracy to very good effect. Doris Day is as warm as ever, as peppy. Brian Keith just has that solid, laconic presence. Both personalities play off each other wonderfully. Another asset is that the hurdles Abby and Jake overcome are all realistic ones, expected ones. And they don't face obstacles only as a married couple. The first half of the film has these two single parents sneaking around at the local drive-in for an order of coffee and necking. It's noteworthy that a few of these courtship scenes come off as relatively racy, racy relative to its era, anyway. But when they elope - an act not at all sanctioned by the children - and begin merging their two households, then come the real challenges. The happily eloped couple find their problems exacerbated, having to cope with Abby's oldest son's anger at being deposed as the man of the house, Jake's sullen daughter being so possessive of her father, and just where the heck do they all live. (Answer to this last one: they alternate houses, of course.) The dogs from the respective families don't even like each other.
It takes a long while for these two households to come to terms. When Abby and Stacey finally bond, we're treated to a scene that is both satisfying and a clever bit of psychology. However, the big final act absolutely veers away from the realism and sense of grounding that had marked the film up to this point. Apparently, even though Abby and Stacey had made their peace, it wouldn't take anything less than repeated poultry truck collisions, a wave of motorcycled hippies, and everyone getting arrested before the rest of the fam sees the light. By the way, a pre-M*A*S*H Jamie Farr has a supporting role as one of the hippies. By the way, having hippies in it tends to date a film. Stand-up comic George Carlin also has a bit part as a drive-in waiter who keeps hitting on Doris Day. He's practically unrecognizable here.
When all's said and done, this is a Doris Day movie and I'm rather fond of her. So, deserving or not - and even though she doesn't sing in this one and even though there are those awkward moments in which a 1950s sweetheart tries to fit into the mod/counterculture/whatever-it-is scene - I'm still allotting 4 stars out of 5 for her feature film swan song. And also because I got a kick out of the poultry truck driver's outraged accusation: "This has got to be a plot against the chickens of America!" Heh.
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?Format: DVD
?Runtime: 95 minutes
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