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With Six You Get Eggroll
With Six You Get Eggroll is a 1968 American romantic comedy film directed by Howard Morris and starring Doris Day, Brian Keith, Barbara Hershey, George Carlin, and Pat Carroll. It was the first film that was produced by the CBS Television Network's film unit, Cinema Center Films, and Day's final film performance (and Carlin's film debut).
The title of the movie comes from a scene where the family goes out for Chinese food, and one of the kids notices that because they are a large group, they get something extra: "With six you get eggroll!" Several movie theater chains included a tie-in promotion with the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company where, fulfilling the title, every sixth patron admitted would receive a coupon for a free pack, or a free pack itself, of their Chun King brand reheatable shrimp eggrolls.
Abby McClure (Doris Day) is a widow with three sons who runs the lumberyard that her husband owned. Her matchmaking sister Maxine (Pat Carroll) tricks her into calling widower Jake Iverson (Brian Keith) and inviting him to the business dinner party Abby is having that night. Not interested in the trouble his sexy, adultery-minded neighbor Cleo (Elaine Devry) is trying to get him into, Jake arrives at Abby's and is bored by all of the matchmaking dialogue. Jake makes up an excuse to leave, but later runs into Abby at an all-night supermarket. Embarrassed by being caught in a fib, Jake meets Abby at a local drive-in run by the wise-cracking Herbie (George Carlin) and the two stay out until 2 am. A romance develops, much to the chagrin of Jake's teenaged daughter Stacey (Barbara Hershey) and Abby's three sons, Flip, Mitch, and Jason (John Findlater, Jimmy Bracken, and Richard Steele). The children make certain that neither Jake nor Abby can be comfortable at the other's home, so the pair winds up more than once at the drive-in, before finally falling in love. Fed up with the situation, they elope, not telling their children that they have married until the next day, when the children discover them in bed together.
From then on, Abby's sons fight with Iverson's daughter Stacey, Flip and Stacey both are hostile to the idea of a stepparent, and even Abby's sheepdog and Jake's poodle are incompatible. Neither's house is large enough for the family of six—not including Abby's live-in maid, Molly (Alice Ghostley), so they borrow a camper and use it as a bedroom while they move into Abby's house and eventually put Jake's up for sale.
The morning after a bedtime argument, Abby drives off in the camper in a rage; Jake is dumped out clad only in boxers and clutching a teddy bear. After running through the neighborhood, he gets Herbie to lend him some clothes and drive him back to his house. Once Abby discovers what has happened, she returns, only to find Jake gone. She is joined by a band of hippies she meets when she reaches the drive-in. When the camper collides with a livestock truck carrying chickens, Abby and the hippies are arrested. Hearing of the accident, Jake and the children rush to her rescue, colliding with the same chicken truck. The angry driver assaults Jake, and the children (and pets) unite in his defense. At the stationhouse, the parents and children are joyfully reconciled, and the family finally buys a huge two-story house big enough for a family of six, a maid, and two dogs.
It was the first film made by the newly formed Cinema Center Films, a subdivision of CBS network.
The cast includes several actors in small parts (some uncredited) who are much better known for other performances, such as Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Ken Osmond, Allan Melvin, Jackie Joseph, Milton Frome, Vic Tayback, George Carlin, Peter Leeds, Howard Morris, Maudie Prickett and Creed Bratton (part of the singing group The Grass Roots). Many of them (as well as Day herself, in The Doris Day Show) later turned up in TV sitcoms: Farr and Christopher in M*A*S*H, Tayback in Alice, Carlin in The George Carlin Show and Bratton in The Office. (Keith was starring in Family Affair at the time, while Osmond had played the iconic Eddie Haskell in Leave It to Beaver.)
The film was released only four months after United Artists' Yours, Mine and Ours. While both films have the same premise—that of a widow and a widower marrying each other and creating a blended family—the United Artists film was based on a true story and was a huge commercial success (if not critical) becoming the 11th highest-grossing film of the year.[citation needed]
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With Six You Get Eggroll
With Six You Get Eggroll is a 1968 American romantic comedy film directed by Howard Morris and starring Doris Day, Brian Keith, Barbara Hershey, George Carlin, and Pat Carroll. It was the first film that was produced by the CBS Television Network's film unit, Cinema Center Films, and Day's final film performance (and Carlin's film debut).
The title of the movie comes from a scene where the family goes out for Chinese food, and one of the kids notices that because they are a large group, they get something extra: "With six you get eggroll!" Several movie theater chains included a tie-in promotion with the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company where, fulfilling the title, every sixth patron admitted would receive a coupon for a free pack, or a free pack itself, of their Chun King brand reheatable shrimp eggrolls.
Abby McClure (Doris Day) is a widow with three sons who runs the lumberyard that her husband owned. Her matchmaking sister Maxine (Pat Carroll) tricks her into calling widower Jake Iverson (Brian Keith) and inviting him to the business dinner party Abby is having that night. Not interested in the trouble his sexy, adultery-minded neighbor Cleo (Elaine Devry) is trying to get him into, Jake arrives at Abby's and is bored by all of the matchmaking dialogue. Jake makes up an excuse to leave, but later runs into Abby at an all-night supermarket. Embarrassed by being caught in a fib, Jake meets Abby at a local drive-in run by the wise-cracking Herbie (George Carlin) and the two stay out until 2 am. A romance develops, much to the chagrin of Jake's teenaged daughter Stacey (Barbara Hershey) and Abby's three sons, Flip, Mitch, and Jason (John Findlater, Jimmy Bracken, and Richard Steele). The children make certain that neither Jake nor Abby can be comfortable at the other's home, so the pair winds up more than once at the drive-in, before finally falling in love. Fed up with the situation, they elope, not telling their children that they have married until the next day, when the children discover them in bed together.
From then on, Abby's sons fight with Iverson's daughter Stacey, Flip and Stacey both are hostile to the idea of a stepparent, and even Abby's sheepdog and Jake's poodle are incompatible. Neither's house is large enough for the family of six—not including Abby's live-in maid, Molly (Alice Ghostley), so they borrow a camper and use it as a bedroom while they move into Abby's house and eventually put Jake's up for sale.
The morning after a bedtime argument, Abby drives off in the camper in a rage; Jake is dumped out clad only in boxers and clutching a teddy bear. After running through the neighborhood, he gets Herbie to lend him some clothes and drive him back to his house. Once Abby discovers what has happened, she returns, only to find Jake gone. She is joined by a band of hippies she meets when she reaches the drive-in. When the camper collides with a livestock truck carrying chickens, Abby and the hippies are arrested. Hearing of the accident, Jake and the children rush to her rescue, colliding with the same chicken truck. The angry driver assaults Jake, and the children (and pets) unite in his defense. At the stationhouse, the parents and children are joyfully reconciled, and the family finally buys a huge two-story house big enough for a family of six, a maid, and two dogs.
It was the first film made by the newly formed Cinema Center Films, a subdivision of CBS network.
The cast includes several actors in small parts (some uncredited) who are much better known for other performances, such as Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Ken Osmond, Allan Melvin, Jackie Joseph, Milton Frome, Vic Tayback, George Carlin, Peter Leeds, Howard Morris, Maudie Prickett and Creed Bratton (part of the singing group The Grass Roots). Many of them (as well as Day herself, in The Doris Day Show) later turned up in TV sitcoms: Farr and Christopher in M*A*S*H, Tayback in Alice, Carlin in The George Carlin Show and Bratton in The Office. (Keith was starring in Family Affair at the time, while Osmond had played the iconic Eddie Haskell in Leave It to Beaver.)
The film was released only four months after United Artists' Yours, Mine and Ours. While both films have the same premise—that of a widow and a widower marrying each other and creating a blended family—the United Artists film was based on a true story and was a huge commercial success (if not critical) becoming the 11th highest-grossing film of the year.[citation needed]