{"id":29989,"date":"2013-08-11T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T15:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=29989"},"modified":"2020-08-14T09:35:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T13:35:26","slug":"the-day-the-clown-cried-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/11\/the-day-the-clown-cried-footage\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Some Rare Behind-The-Scenes Footage Of Jerry Lewis’s Unreleased Film THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Some people have called Jerry Lewis’s holocaust drama The Day The Clown Cried<\/strong> a lost film in that it has never been seen by the public. I suppose it is in a sense, but am reluctant to give it that tag as it has gone unseen more due to legal problems keeping it in a vault rather than through any casual neglect that resulted in no prints for the title in continued existence.<\/p>\n

(You can read an in depth explanation of those legal problems, as well as a review of the film’s screenplay in our script review here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

But one thing is for sure. The Day The Clown Cried<\/strong> is probably at the top of almost all serious film fans of unavailable titles that they would love to have a chance to see. And while a nearly complete version of the film lies tucked away in a safe in Jerry Lewis’s office, a sequence from an old Dutch television show on Lewis has surfaced on YouTube that shows the comic\/director in the process of shooting the film. The sequences we do get to see are from early in the film, centering on Lewis’s German circus clown character Helmut Doork before he is caught making fun of Adolf Hilter and sent off to a concentration camp where he is forced to entertain children on their way to the gas chamber.<\/p>\n