Jerry Lewis
Helmut Doork
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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]
- English
- Nat Wachsberger [fr]
A drama about a circus clown who performs for Jewish children in a Nazi death camp. The film, directed and starring Jerry Lewis, has never been released and is considered a failure by critics and fans.
- Jerry Lewis
- 90
- 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...
Summaries. A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths. 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.
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...
Aug 13, 2013 · A Glimpse of “The Day the Clown Cried” August 13, 2013. Something of a cinematic miracle occurred this weekend: I was tipped off on Twitter by a friend, the critic Simon Abrams, about a...
A controversial film by Jerry Lewis about a clown in a Nazi prison camp. Learn about the plot, cast, crew, and technical details of this unfinished and unreleased project.
