With Six You Get Eggroll

Enjoyed this Doris DAy movie. received in timely fashion in excellent shape. Will purchase from your co. again!!!

Still youthful-looking at 46, Doris Day plays Abby McClure, a widow who's running her late husband's lumberyard, trying to raise three boys (Flip (John Findlater), 18; Mitchell (Jimmy Bracken), 10; and Jason (Richard Steel), 7) and an Olde English Sheepdog, and fending off her older sister Maxine (Pat Carroll), who's determined to see her matched up with a new mate. When Max's choice for her dinner date cancels out, she's maneuvered into inviting Jake Iverson (Brian Keith), an old friend of herself and her husband, in his place. Abby and Jake haven't seen each other in six or seven years--since before Phil McClure's death--and Jake, a chemical engineer for a petroleum company, is "in the same boat [Abby is]," single-parenting a 17-year-old daughter, Stacey (Barbara Hershey), and a poodle. Much to their mutual astonishment, they find themselves attracted to each other from the start. After a brief break caused when Abby mistakes Stacey for Jake's "young chick" girlfriend, they contrive a strange courtship (mostly at the local drive-in eatery because neither Flip nor Stacey approves of the possibility of a stepparent) and finally elope to Vegas. Now begins an exhausting round of Musical Houses (neither one has enough room for a family of six) that culminates in a terrible fight and a delightfully wild chase as Jake, having accidentally tumbled out the back of the camper they borrowed from Max and her husband as an extra emergency bedroom, tries to make his way home and Abby, accompanied by a gang of motorcycle-mounted hippies (led by Jamie Farr and William Christopher, who later teamed in M*A*S*H - Martinis and Medicine Complete Collection) and a pair of cops, tries to catch up with him. In the end a clash with the driver (Vic Tayback of "Alice") of a chicken truck unexpectedly brings the family together, a new and bigger house is bought, and the future looks rosy for all.

Though at first blush the movie may seem to be a poor man's version of Yours, Mine and Ours, there really isn't much similarity between the two: instead of all the kids resisting the union, the obstructionism comes mainly from the two oldest ones (Mitch and Jason seem to accept Jake without much friction, perhaps because they can barely remember their real father). But, like Fonda and Ball, Day and Keith have a good, gentle, believable chemistry, and Carroll (with Herb Voland as her long-suffering lawyer husband, Harry Scott) and Alice Ghostley as Abby's housekeeper Molly add a fillip of extra humor. The '60's ambience--ultra-straight Flip, the performance cameo by the group The Grass Roots, and above all the hippies--is another plus that may get families talking about that now long-past era. As you might expect from a Doris Day movie, there's absolutely nothing here that any parent could object to, and families both blended and otherwise should find it fun.

Doris Day's final movie is my favorite Doris Day movie for many reasons. First, the year was 1968 and although the generation gap was booming in America, this movie shows the best of how we got along in this country. I was a kid when my parents took me to see this movie in the theatre when it was first released and I've always loved it. Americans were facing the Vietnam War, the assasinations of RFK and Martin Luther King, Jr., the hippies and drug revolution was ruining too much of American youth but many families were holding things together and that is something which has been overlooked by history. In this movie, we see Doris holding down the responsibilities of owning a family business and taking care of her three kids as a single mom (and she looks absolutely beautiful throughout the entire movie) and Brian Keith as a hard working, level headed, single dad raising a teenage daughter during these turbulent times. Doris and Brian meet and well, you'll have to trust me that there is sheer magic on the screen between them. It's also fun to see the 1968 cars and the styles of houses (which were much nicer than the cheap looking, aluminum sided townhouses and condos so widespread today in the US).
Brian Keith had a hit TV show with "Family Affair" on CBS during the making of this movie and Doris Day was about to launch her own "The Doris Day Show" later in 1968 on CBS. Two superstars of film and TV in one movie. It's a real treat to watch over and again.

There are times I like to be reminded of my childhood and watch some of the movies that my father and mother use to watch. This is a great movie and I love Doris Day she was a phenomenal actress. Any movie she's in you know you are going to see a good movie and its going to be funny. This is a very good movie.

Classic family film. Besides Doris Day and Brian Keith. You have those guys from Mash. Time dated for sure, but nice little movie. I would compare to the original "The Parent Trap" also with Brian Keith(although the remake is pretty good also), "Six Pack" with Kenny Rogers, and "Yours,Mine,and Ours" with Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda. Family fun. Something you can let your kids watch. I'm 60, and I still love to watch them. A good movie is one you can watch over and over again,and I do.