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

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

1969

1h47m

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

Comedy

Music

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.

Status: Released

Revenue: $2,100,000.00

Budget: $500,000.00

Release date: March 19, 1969

Countries of origin: United Kingdom,

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Production companies
  • Universal Pictures
  • J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors

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Anthony Newley

Anthony Newley

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Joan Collins

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Bruce Forsyth

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Stubby Kaye

Stubby Kaye

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