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