Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
1969 · 107 min
Comedy · Music
★ 4.8Trailer
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.
Crew
- Director Anthony Newley
- Writer Anthony Newley
- Writer Herman Raucher
- Director of Photography Otto Heller
Cast
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
- A
Alexander Newley
Thaxted
- T
Tara Newley
Thumbelina
Patricia Hayes
Grandma
- R
Ronald Rubin
Skinny Writer
Louis Negin
Producer Peter
Crew
- Director — Anthony Newley
- Writer — Anthony Newley
- Writer — Herman Raucher
- Director of Photography — Otto Heller
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