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

Storyline

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.
    Released
    3/19/1969
    Runtime
    1h 47min
    Director
    Budget
    $500,000
    Revenue
    $2,100,000
    Genre
    Status
    Released
    Language
    English
    Production
    Universal Pictures, J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors
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