Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
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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Anthony Newley
as Heironymous Merkin
Patricia Hayes
as Grandma
Robert Hutton
as Insurance Agent
Joan Collins
as Polyester Poontang
Bruce Forsyth
as Uncle Limelight
Stubby Kaye
as Fat Writer
Lynda Baron
as Salesgirl
Milton Berle
as Goodtime Eddie Filth
Ronald Radd
as Critic Bentley
George Jessel
as The Presence
Margaret Nolan
as Little Assistance
Louis Negin
as Producer Peter
Tom Stern
as Producer Ron
Desmond Walter-Ellis
as Philip Bluster
Aleta Morrison
as Harriet
Connie Kreski
as Mercy Humppe
Rosalind Knight
as Critic Bentley
Judy Cornwell
as Filigree Fondle
Victor Spinetti
as Critic Sharpnose
Bruce Boa
as Car Salesman
