Movie Details
Theatrical Release:March 19th, 1969
Movie Budget:$500,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$2,100,000 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Universal Pictures J Arthur Rank Film Distributors
Movie Tags:
autobiographical
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness (1969)
Movie"Heironymus Merkin the most talented movie star who ever sang danced and loved girls girls girls"
Audience Score
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 Merkins promiscuous relationships with women are explored particularly Polyester Poontang and the adolescent Mercy Humppe Merkin is constantly surrounded by a Satanlike procurer Goodtime Eddie Filth and an angelic Presence who interrupts Merkins biography with cryptic Borscht Beltlevel jokes to denote births and deaths in Merkins life Newley periodically steps out of character to complain about his Merkin role with an unseen director two screenwriters the films producers and a trio of blasé movie critics who are turned off by the storys eroticism and lack of plot
DirectorAnthony Newley
