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Language. English. The Day the Clown Cried is an unfinished and unreleased 1972 Swedish-French drama film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis. [1] It is based on an original screenplay by Joan O'Brien and Charles Denton, from a story idea by O'Brien, with additional material from Lewis. [2]
The Day the Clown Cried: Directed by Jerry Lewis. With Jerry Lewis, Peter Ahlm, Lars Amble, Harriet Andersson. A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths.
- Jerry Lewis
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- Drama
- Jerry Lewis, Peter Ahlm, Lars Amble
Aug 21, 2017 · Jerry Lewis died on Sunday at the age of 91, leaving behind at least one big mystery: the fate of The Day the Clown Cried, an unreleased 1972 Holocaust film that Lewis directed and...
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In 1972, Lewis, best known at the time for mainstream comedies like “The Nutty Professor,” traveled to Paris and Stockholm to make a different kind of movie: a Holocaust drama called “The Day...
Jan 5, 2024 · 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.
Brief Synopsis. Read More. 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.
