Le carrousel fantastique

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

1969
R
1h 47m

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Heironymus Merkin screens an autobiographical movie of his life, growth, and moral decay.Heironymus Merkin screens an autobiographical movie of his life, growth, and moral decay.Heironymus Merkin screens an autobiographical movie of his life, growth, and moral decay.

Directors
- Anthony Newley
- Richard Williams
Writers
- Herman Raucher
- Anthony Newley
Stars

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IMDb RATING

4.9/10

427

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Directors
- Anthony Newley
- Richard Williams
Writers
- Herman Raucher
- Anthony Newley
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win total

User reviews29

Featured review

Wow - that was weird!

People complain that studios don't take chances anymore. Well, although sometimes when they did take a chance they made a masterpiece, they also came up with movies like this! This movie is a mess, so...weird. For much of the running time, it's fascinating to watch its insanity, though eventually it becomes tiring. The only really funny bit is the hilariously tasteless "The Princess and the Donkey" number.

Wizard-8
Nov 17, 1999
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Trivia
When this movie was originally released in 1969, some newspapers refused to advertise it, compelling cinephiles to call up their local theaters to learn the title. A few theaters even temporarily expanded their marquees to fit the entire title. Other theaters truncated the title to "Heironymous Merkin".

Goofs
The color of Thumbelina's ice-cream cone changes between brown and white and pink.

Quotes
Hieronymous Merkin: Then the Eskimo and the Indian and the cannibal all rush over to the knight and they say, "Your dragon was here and he's looking to terrify you a great deal." And the knight sits there, and he laughs, and he laughs, and he laughs. The moral of the story is, once you understand your own dragon, you don't have to be afraid anymore. See what I mean?

Crazy credits
There are no opening credits. All credits come at the end. The actors take a bow on a custom-made, pastel-painted, portable stage on a beach as their names are credited in jagged, psychedelic print.

Alternate versions
There is both an R-rated and an X-rated version. The R-rated version removes a few seconds of the sex scene with Mercy Humppe following the carousel sequence and tones down the suggestiveness of the "Princess and the Donkey" sequence. The X-rated version contains all the footage cut for the R version.