Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? Poster

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

03/19/1969 Comedy, Music 1h 47m
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Score
4.9/10
43%

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.

Anthony Newley

Director

Herman Raucher

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Anthony Newley

Anthony Newley

Heironymous Merkin

Joan Collins

Joan Collins

Polyester Poontang

Bruce Forsyth

Bruce Forsyth

Uncle Limelight

Milton Berle

Milton Berle

Goodtime Eddie Filth

Stubby Kaye

Stubby Kaye

Fat Writer

George Jessel

George Jessel

The Presence

Connie Kreski

Connie Kreski

Mercy Humppe

Alexander Newley

Alexander Newley

Thaxted

Tara Newley

Tara Newley

Thumbelina

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

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

Joan Collins "Chalk and Cheese" (from HIERONYMUS MERKIN)

Joan Collins "Chalk and Cheese" (from HIERONYMUS MERKIN)

Anthony Newley - Princess Trampolina (From Heironymus Merkin)

Anthony Newley - Princess Trampolina (From Heironymus Merkin)

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