Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969)

Comedy
Music

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.

Cast

Heironymous Merkin
Polyester Poontang
Skinny Writer
Producer Peter
Producer Ron
Filigree Fondle
Little Assistance
Trampolena Whambang
Salesgirl
Uncle Limelight
Goodtime Eddie Filth
Fat Writer
The Presence
Mercy Humppe
Thumbelina

Crew

Opening Title Sequence
Associate Producer
Director of Photography
Art Direction
Set Decoration
Original Music Composer