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

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

R

1969

1h 46m

Comedy

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Film star Merkin (Anthony Newley) relives the movie of his life, to forget Mercy Humppe and find true happiness with his wife (Joan Collins).

Vincent Canby

New York Times

The movie is as self-indulgent as a burp.

May 9, 2005

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

It is strange, wonderful, original, and not quite successful.

Rated: 3/4

Oct 23, 2004

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

...a personal, ambitious and influential film with an emphasis on pathos and self-pity. The intensely personal nature of the production seems like a miscalculation, yet has the fascination of a train-wreck, a car crash and a dumpster fire simultaneously.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 30, 2024

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Larry Zolf

Maclean's Magazine

It's Newley and Newley alone that one must credit for a new auteur breakthrough -- the world's first commercially screened stag home movie.

Jul 10, 2019

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Robert Cushman

The Spectator

The question of whether or not Heironymus will get over the Humppe never becomes pressing. Nor does anything else; bets can seldom have been so consistently hedged.

Jul 10, 2019

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Bernard Drew

Gannett News Service

Fellini had his 8 1/2, and Anthony Newley, feeling himself no less a genius, has now made his Odyssey, which might be called 1 1/4.

Jul 10, 2019

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Anthony Newley's son recommended this to me via the trashy tabloids, admitting it was humiliating to have his father put his toddler self and his mother in his film where Newley Sr. sings about being unable to resist cheating on Mom (Joan Collins) with very young girls, all filmed in front of a mountain of his own trash. This is rated X, and it is very X, so, if you can't handle X, don't go here. Because man, you might be like me and be laughing your f'ing head off at how wrong this is, and the shame of finding something this filthy ingenius will hit you, and you'll have to take a few steps back from it all and raise a lot of difficult questions to yourself about the arts. No one has to make this film again because Anthony Newley made it, and it is an epic masterpiece on the man and the myths. You won't be guilty for watching this, but, you may feel guilty, so beware.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Audience Member

Vanity project for Newley is bizarre, to say the least.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Anthony Newley

Heironymus Merkin

Joan Collins

Polyester Poontang

Milton Berle

Goodtime Eddie Filth

Connie Kreski

Mercy Humppe

George Jessel

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Synopsis

Film star Merkin (Anthony Newley) relives the movie of his life, to forget Mercy Humppe and find true happiness with his wife (Joan Collins).

Director: Anthony Newley
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 46m