"can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe And Find True Happiness?"

March, 1969

"Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?"As it turns out, the suggestively surnamed Hieronymus Merkin (a pubic wig) can't quite forget the more-obviously monikered Miss Humppe, so he doesn't exactly find true happiness, either. But as the film careens toward an answer to its marathon-title question, one finds that Anthony Newley--co-author, producer, director and star--has created what will be the movies' first Priapean musical comedy. Newley plays a likable 40-ye...