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Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969)

ALL 03/19/1969 (en) Comedy, Music 107 Min
  • Release
    03/19/1969
  • Production
    Universal Pictures, J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors
  • Rotten tomato
    46%
  • Original title
    Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 2,100,000.00
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Heironymus Merkin, the most talented movie star who ever sang, danced and loved girls, girls, girls.

Overview

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.

  1. Anthony Newley

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Anthony Newley

    Producer



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  1. Anthony Newley

    Heironymous Merkin

  2. Joan Collins

    Polyester Poontang

  3. Bruce Forsyth

    Uncle Limelight

  4. Milton Berle

    Goodtime Eddie Filth

  5. Stubby Kaye

    Fat Writer

  6. George Jessel

    The Presence

  7. Connie Kreski

    Mercy Humppe

  8. Alexander Newley

    Thaxted

  9. Tara Newley

    Thumbelina

  10. Patricia Hayes

    Grandma

  11. Ronald Rubin

    Skinny Writer

  12. Louis Negin

    Producer Peter

  13. Tom Stern

    Producer Ron

  14. Judy Cornwell

    Filigree Fondle

  15. Margaret Nolan

    Little Assistance

  16. Yolanda

    Trampolena Whambang

  17. Lynda Baron

    Salesgirl

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Casts : 17 , Crews : 12

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Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969) 107 Min

ALL 03/19/1969 (en)
Comedy, Music
  • Release 03/19/1969
  • Production
    Universal Pictures, J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors
  • Original title Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
  • en
  • Revenue2,100,000.00

Heironymus Merkin, the most talented movie star who ever sang, danced and loved girls, girls, girls.

Overview

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.

  1. Anthony Newley

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Bernard Gribble

    Editor

  4. Anthony Newley

    Producer



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