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Jerry Lewis, the director, writer & star of The Day The Clown Cried finally gets a screening! Story: Controversial Jerry Lewis film to screen in public for first time after 52 years.

One of cinema’s most sought-after films is set to be screened in public for the first time.

Comedian Jerry Lewis’s controversial holocaust film The Day the Clown Cried, shot in 1972 but never released due to myriad issues with the production, has never been made available in any form, leading the project to reach mythical status in the global film community.

The project, potentially in a semi-unfinished form, is set for a June screening due to a stipulation from Lewis himself. Several years before he died in 2017, a copy was given to the Library of Congress in the US with an agreement it could not be screened in any capacity until this year, though it has since been reported that it may be a rough version.

The National News - Arts & Culture

Film summary:

Helmut Doork, a once great and famous clown, is fired from the circus. Getting drunk at a local bar, he pokes fun at Hitler in front of some Gestapo agents, who arrest and send him to a prison camp. Helmut angers his fellow prisoners by refusing to perform for them, wanting to preserve his legend. As times passes, Jews are brought into the camp, with fraternizing between them and the other prisoners strictly prohibited. Eventually, Helmut is forced by the others to perform or be beaten. His act bombs and he leaves the barracks depressed, trying the routine out again alone in the prison yard. He hears laughter and sees a group of Jewish children watching him through a fence. Happy to be appreciated again, he makes a makeshift clown suit and begins to regularly perform. His audience grows, but a new prison Commandant orders Helmut to stop. When he refuses and continues to perform, he's beaten and thrown in solitary confinement. But the Nazis soon come up with a use for Helmut, keeping the children quiet as they are loaded into a boxcar to be sent to another camp. Helmut complies, but is accidentally locked in with the children and arrives the next day at Auschwitz.

Film trivia:

In 2008 Jerry Lewis took questions at a press conference and was asked by one person: "When are you going to release 'The Day the Clown Cried'?" to which Lewis snapped, "None of your goddamn business!"

Jerry Lewis had the only copy locked in a private vault and vowed to keep it from ever being viewed again. However, according to an article in the 8/26/15 issue of the "Los Angeles Times", he allowed this film--along with some of his other movies--to be preserved at the Library of Congress, but part of the deal was that the film would not be screened there until 2024 (as it turned out, this would make its first showing several years after Lewis' death in 2017). The Library of Congress also released a statement that it hadn't decided its specific screening plans, but would neither share the film for viewing with other government facilities nor release it for any kind of home media.

Jerry Lewis hired a former SS guard as a technical assistant in order to ensure that the concentration camp set in Sweden both looked and felt real.

Jerry Lewis spent ten years working on this movie before filming began.

Sourced from IMDB


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