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Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
Heironymus Merkin, the most talented movie star who ever sang, danced and loved girls, girls, girls.
Heironymus Merkin is an internationally successful singer approaching middle age who retells his life story in a series of production numbers on a seashore in front of his two toddlers and aged mother. Merkin's promiscuous relationships with women are explored, particularly Polyester Poontang and the adolescent Mercy Humppe. Merkin is constantly surrounded by a Satan-like procurer, Goodtime Eddie Filth, and an angelic 'Presence' who interrupts Merkin's biography with cryptic Borscht Belt-level jokes to denote births and deaths in Merkin's life. Newley periodically steps out of character to complain about his 'Merkin' role with an unseen director, two screenwriters, the film's producers and a trio of blasé movie critics who are turned off by the story's eroticism and lack of plot.
- Original title
- Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $500,000
- Revenue
- $2,100,000
Anthony Newley
Heironymous Merkin
Joan Collins
Polyester Poontang
Bruce Forsyth
Uncle Limelight
Milton Berle
Goodtime Eddie Filth
Stubby Kaye
Fat Writer
George Jessel
The Presence
Connie Kreski
Mercy Humppe
Patricia Hayes
Grandma
Louis Negin
Producer Peter
Tom Stern
Producer Ron
Judy Cornwell
Filigree Fondle
Margaret Nolan
Little Assistance
Lynda Baron
Salesgirl
Ronald Radd
Critic Bentley
Rosalind Knight
Critic Bentley
Victor Spinetti
Critic Sharpnose
Desmond Walter-Ellis
Philip Bluster
Bruce Boa
Car Salesman
Robert Hutton
Insurance Agent
Aleta Morrison
Harriet
William Constable
Art Direction
Richard Williams
Opening Title Sequence
Otto Heller
Director of Photography
Anthony Newley
Director
Anthony Newley
Producer
Anthony Newley
Original Music Composer
Anthony Newley
Writer
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Mar 19, 1969
Original rating X
