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Revenue: $2,100,000
Budget: $500,000
Profit: + $1,600,000
Movie Details
Tag Line: Heironymus Merkin, the most talented movie star who ever sang, danced and loved girls, girls, girls.
Status: Released
Average Rating: 4
Release Date: Mar 19, 1969
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Run Time: 1h 47m
Original Language: English
Website: -
Production Countries: United Kingdom
Production Companies: Universal Pictures , J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors
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Synopsis
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.
Crew
Department | Role | Name |
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Editing | Editor |
Bernard Gribble
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Camera | Director of Photography |
Otto Heller
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Directing | Director |
Anthony Newley
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Production | Producer |
Anthony Newley
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Associate Producer |
George Fowler
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Writing | Writer |
Anthony Newley
Herman Raucher
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Lyricist |
Herbert Kretzmer
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Sound | Music |
Anthony Newley
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Art | Opening Title Sequence |
Richard Williams
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Art Direction |
Bill Constable
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Set Decoration |
Scott Slimon
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Department | Role | Name |