The Day The Clown Cried
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The Strange Tale Of Jerry Lewis' Unreleased Holocaust Comedy
There’s only one copy of the film in existence and it belongs to Lewis, who keeps it under lock and key – because he considers it to be one of the worst films ever made. In 1972, Lewis agreed to direct and star in holocaust drama 'The Day The Clown Cried’, adapted from a script written by Joan O'Brien and Charles Denton. The film would see funnyman Lewis playing a clown who winds up entertaining children as they’re led to the gas chambers in Auschwitz.
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New Images Of Jerry Lewis's Infamous Holocaust Movie Emerge
New images from ‘The Day The Clown Cried’, comedian Jerry Lewis’s infamous movie about the holocaust, have surfaced. Lewis decided that once the movie was made it would never be released, and it remains that it’s only ever been seen by a handful of people. Lewis both directed and starred in the movie, which told the harrowing tale of a washed up clown called Helmut Doork who is sent to a prison camp for drunkenly mocking Hitler.
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Infamous Unreleased Jerry Lewis Holocaust Comedy Could Finally See The Light Of Day
Jerry Lewis’s ‘The Day The Clown Cried’ was made by the revered comedian in the 70s, but never properly finished because it was reputedly so terribly awful. The film has now been donated among a collection of Lewis’s other work to the Library of Congress in the US, but with the proviso that it will not be screened for at least another decade. In it, Lewis played Helmut Doork, a German clown who is arrested by the Gestapo for mocking Hitler during World War Two.
