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McCrutchy wrote: Sun Aug 16, 2026 12:55 am Anthony Newley's Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969), could actually be simultaneously good, bad and the "greatest" title ever, depending on how you define the last. As far as I can tell, it has never legally been on video.

One of the greatest ego trips to ever be financed by a major studio. It also shamelessly steals from multiple Fellini films

I've always been curious about the title of Robert Hossein's film Toi, le venin, which has the tawdry English
title of Nude in a White Car (presumably to cash in on the...

Spoiler

three seconds of nudity in the film.

I was wondering if the French title is perhaps a turn of phrase. I know that venin can alternatively mean poison
or spite so I wasn't sure.

It’s poison, a line from the source novel

Je suis peut-etre la vipere, en tout cas c'est toi le venin...

(I may be the viper, but you are the venom…)