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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew video surfaces from famed (and shamed) Jerry Lewis Holocaust film
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/08/11/the-day-the-clown-cried-video-jerry-lewis/This is making-of footage from a film that will never-be.
The Day the Clown Cried was a 1972 Holocaust drama directed and starring Jerry Lewis that was famously decried for its bad taste before ever being released. Lewis then buried the film, denouncing it as bad and made him feel embarrassed.
The script and a few stills are all that survive for public consumption until now, when YouTube user unclesporkums found this 7-minute clip of behind-the-scenes footage and shared it online yesterday.
It will be a curiosity to anyone interested in film history, though it is unlikely to stay online long. Lewis has vowed to keep the film hidden forever.
The Day the Clown Cried was a 1972 Holocaust drama directed and starring Jerry Lewis that was famously decried for its bad taste before ever being released. Lewis then buried the film, denouncing it as bad and made him feel embarrassed.
The script and a few stills are all that survive for public consumption until now, when YouTube user unclesporkums found this 7-minute clip of behind-the-scenes footage and shared it online yesterday.
It will be a curiosity to anyone interested in film history, though it is unlikely to stay online long. Lewis has vowed to keep the film hidden forever.
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New video surfaces from famed (and shamed) Jerry Lewis Holocaust film (Original Post)
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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)1. It sounds like a helluva movie...
I wonder why Jerry felt ashamed of it?
sobenji
(316 posts)2. I think I would grant him his wish
And not view it.
The man has done so much good for the world (and please, no list of bad stuff he's done... I am sure he's in the plus column overall) I would take his word for it that it's a piece of crap.
He earned that from me.
I read the screenplay, it was pretty awful in substance,style and sheer humanity horror.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)3. I've wanted to see this since I first heard about it.
It is supposedly legendarily awful.