Explores Jerry Lewis' unreleased 1972 film "The Day the Clown Cried," its mysterious disappearance, and the search for footage. Includes interviews with Lewis' associates and previously unseen production content.
Direction
Patient excavation of a celebrity's deepest professional wound.
Editing
Fragments assembled like a crime scene reconstruction.
Acting
Lewis' own archival interviews—defensive, wounded, magnetic.
Director
Michael Lurie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film's premise—Lewis as a clown entertaining children in Auschwitz—created instant moral panic before a single critic saw frames.
Lewis donated his personal print to the Library of Congress in 2015 with a 10-year exhibition embargo—expired 2025, yet still unreleased.
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