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Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? is a 1969 British musical film directed by and starring Anthony Newley.

In 1970 Newley and his cowriter Herman Raucher won the Writers Guild of Great Britain Award for Best British Original Screenplay. The films original music was written by Newley with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer Les Misrables. The film was controversial because it was X rated in its original release, meaning many newspapers in the US would not take advertising for it.The film was a commercial, and generally a critical, failure. Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times that Newley so over extends and overexposes himself that the movie comes to look like an act of professional suicide . . . The movie is as selfindulgent as a burp. Its also as pretentious as its form... The movie is not so free and loose as it is simply out of control. In The Sunday Times Guide to Movies on Television, Angela and Elkan Allan asked Can Anthony Newley ever remember that he is just a pleasant light comedian and settle down to earn an unpretentious living? Roger Eberts review in the Chicago SunTimes, on the other hand, praised the films ambition It is strange, wonderful, original, and not quite successful. It is just about the first attempt in English to make the sort of personal film Fellini and Godard have been experimenting with in their very different ways. It is not as great asbut it has the same honesty and selfmocking quality. ........

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