New video surfaces from famed (and shamed) Jerry Lewis Holocaust film

[Recursion]

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.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. It sounds like a helluva movie...

I wonder why Jerry felt ashamed of it?

[sobenji]

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]

3. I've wanted to see this since I first heard about it.

It is supposedly legendarily awful.