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30 minutes of Jerry Lewis’ infamous Holocaust movie have surfaced online
Posted on 6/17/16 at 12:26 pm
Posted on 6/17/16 at 12:26 pm
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Jerry Lewis’ The Day The Clown Cried is like the Area 51 of cinema: Many have gone to great lengths to try to see it for themselves, but it’s held under such tight surveillance that few have managed to penetrate the security. The reason for Lewis’ reluctance to allow anyone to see it is understandable, however: The man wrote, directed, and starred in a Holocaust drama about a German clown who leads Jewish children into the gas chambers during World War II. It’s reportedly a glorious confluence of bad taste and bad choices, culminating in a perfect storm of terribleness. (Or, as Harry Shearer—one of the privileged few to have ever seen it—describes it, the film is “like going down to Tijuana and seeing a painting on black velvet of Auschwitz.”) Footage has surfaced over the years, but the complete film is still under lock and key. Lewis bequeathed it to the Library Of Congress, but only on condition it not be shown until June 2024.
The best laid plans, and all that. ScreenCrush reports almost 30 minutes of the movie have surfaced online, put together in a rough edit of available footage. Some is pulled from a German documentary about the film, other sections are filled in with title cards, and it’s generally in rough shape. But despite all the missing material, it’s far and away the most comprehensive assemblage yet seen of the project, and the most faithful recreation since Patton Oswalt’s live stagings of the script. You can watch all of it above, or just skip to the last five minutes and stare in goggle-eyed amazement at a sad-faced clown leading children to their death.
Why 2024, I wonder?
Posted on 6/17/16 at 12:39 pm to blueboy
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Why 2024, I wonder?
He will likely be dead by then. He's 90 years old.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 12:40 pm to blueboy
Lewis has said he had the only copy of this locked away in a safe. Maybe he was lying.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 12:42 pm to Brosef Stalin
If you don't want it getting out, why even have the one copy of it? He must've had some sense of pride about it at some point
Posted on 6/17/16 at 2:56 pm to blueboy
I have a feeling that it's just crappy, not shockingly bad or offensive. Stuff like this gets built up in everyone's minds just because it isn't available.
Also, in a way, this is an earlier version of Life Is Beautiful.
Also, in a way, this is an earlier version of Life Is Beautiful.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 4:03 pm to Cooter Davenport
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I have a feeling that it's just crappy, not shockingly bad or offensive. Stuff like this gets built up in everyone's minds just because it isn't available.
I mean, dressing up like a clown and leading children into a gas chamber isn't a movie I would want to put out into the world.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 4:03 pm to blueboy
Anybody else watch the footage? I didn't think it was bad. Pretty depressing, but it's supposed to be.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 4:11 pm to Cooter Davenport
quote:Yeah, no.
Also, in a way, this is an earlier version of Life Is Beautiful.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 4:27 pm to blueboy
Actually Lewis is quoted as saying something along the lines of "that director stole that idea from, but he did it well".
I've been researching this all day at work since you posted it. Pretty interesting stuff.
I've been researching this all day at work since you posted it. Pretty interesting stuff.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 4:42 pm to Jcorye1
Just a quote I read from him. Maybe he meant in a cinematic since. But it's a really interesting thing to research.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 5:01 pm to blueboy
I watched the last few minutes and read the plot on wiki. It looks like a pretty good work based on that.
Posted on 6/17/16 at 5:23 pm to blueboy
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“like going down to Tijuana and seeing a painting on black velvet of Auschwitz.”)
I feel bad for laughing at this
Posted on 6/17/16 at 10:16 pm to blueboy
Anyway, very interesting thread nonetheless.
Posted on 6/18/16 at 8:07 am to USMCTiger03
Another reason to hate clowns.
Posted on 6/18/16 at 10:48 am to LucasP
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Anybody else watch the footage? I didn't think it was bad. Pretty depressing, but it's supposed to be.
Just not what folks were used to seeing out of Lewis. The last few minutes are beyond depressing.
Ugh.
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