Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969)
1h 47m
Running Time
March 19, 1969Release Date
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969)
1h 47m
Running Time
March 19, 1969Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Anthony Newley
Heironymus Merkin
Bruce Forsyth
Uncle Limelight
Joan Collins
Polyester Poontang
Milton Berle
Goodtime Eddie Filth
Alexander Newley
Thaxted
Tara Newley
Thumbelina
Stubby Kaye
Fat Writer
Richard Williams
Director
George Jessel
The Presence
Herman Raucher
Writer
Connie Kreski
Mercy Humppe
Otto Heller
Cinematographer
Bernard Gribble
Editor
Patricia Hayes
Grandma
Ronald Rubin
Skinny Writer
Louis Negin
Producer Peter
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 19, 1969
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 47m
Budget$500,000
Box Office$2,100,000
Filming LocationsMalta
Genres
Wiki.
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? is a 1969 British musical film directed by and starring Anthony Newley.