Can Heironymus Merkin Ever..... 1969
I have a feeling very few people know about this movie. I only knew about it because my mother owned the soundtrack on LP. Two years after Anthony Newley was in the family musical Doctor Dolittle he produced, directed and co-wrote this musical that was rated X when it was released in 1969. The full title is Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? which is a very sixties title. In 1964 there was Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb as well as The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies . In 1967 there was The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade . If you have seen the Monkees movie Head, directed by Bob Rafaelson, you know the kind of surreal movies made in the late sixties. This is very surreal but it seems like Newley was basing it on personal experiences....
