With Six You Get Egg Roll (1968) On DVD

Actor:          Doris Day, Brian Keith, Pat Carroll, Barbara Hershey, George Carlin                                                                                             
Director:      Howard Morris
Genre:         Comedy
Year:               1968
Studio:         Paramount Home Video
Length:        95
Released:     May 3, 2005
Rating:         General Audiences (MPAA Rating)
Format:          DVD
Misc:            NTSC, Color
Language:      English
Subtitles  :      N/A

DESCRIPTION:

After her long and wholesome run as America's Sweetheart, Doris Day quit movies with this well-scrubbed picture. With Six You Get Eggroll--oof, what a title--caught the wave of blended-family comedies, coming just after Yours, Mine and Ours and just before TV's The Brady Bunch. Doris has three sons, and new beau Brian Keith has an 18-year-old daughter (the still-baby-faced Barbara Hershey). It's family-friendly sitcom stuff, with both Day and Keith doing their comfortable, patented thing; when the two of them are onscreen together it's like watching a couple of old sweaters mate. This one is straight formula for fans only, although connoisseurs of camp will enjoy the whiff of Aquarius in the otherwise square proceedings (it was 1968, after all) when Doris goes to a nightclub where the Grass Roots are playing. There's also a hippie gang (featuring Jamie Farr and William Christopher, before M*A*S*H) with ponchos and love beads. The times they were a-changin', and kudos to Day for bowing out gracefully.