The Day the Clown Cried

The list of topics approved for inclusion in movies about Nazi extermination camps is so short as to produce lookalike products that humanists inevitably gush over. Since the genre's debut with the TV mini-series 'Holocaust' (or perhaps earlier with 'The... Full review

I am fascinated by this film and the story behind it.Allegedly Lewis has the only copy (or copies) in existence.It is unknown who is truly keeping the film under raps. Some believe Lewis hides the film because of the reaction... Full review

I've noticed that there are some comments here that indicate some of the posters have never even read the script. I obtained one 6 years ago and have read it like many other people, but none of us have actually... Full review

No, I haven't seen "The Day the Clown Cried." For years, though, I've heard about it. There have been many articles and evaluations made in terms of its quality--judgments sometimes from others who haven't seen the film either. I tend... Full review

The Holocaust is a political hot button, and the notion of making any film with both dramatic and comedic elements about it is likely to make people recoil. Yet, "Life is Beautiful" and other films have pulled it off.Having read... Full review

I think it's one of those films that should be shown to the public at a festival like Sundance or shown at the Simon Wiesenthal Center and then decide whether or not to release it, or made into an entirely... Full review

If you have read the screenplay to this apparently completed, then deep-sixed film, you quickly comprehend there isn't anything particularly fatal on paper. It is humanist, yes, and delves into a situation so ugly and desperate that the pathos and... Full review

I'd like to take issue with some of the negative comments made about this film. It is indeed tasteless and poorly written, the dialogue at points is embarassing and maybe the rough cut of the film skews the script toward... Full review

For years I had heard about Lewis' unreleased project; recently I got to read a copy of the script (thanks to "Subterranian Cinema.") In a nutshell, Lewis' character (and he wrote it for himself) is the same as the clown... Full review

Based on Joan O'Brien's book by the same name, about a German clown who was arrested by the Gestapo, interred in a concentration camp, and used to march Jewish children into the ovens. Director-star Jerry Lewis lost close to 40... Full review

The result was one of the best known unreleased films ever made, 1972's The Day the Clown Cried . As the nation entered the '70s, audiences weren't as interested in the type of wacky comedy that Lewis had trademarked on film. ... Full Review

Arguing any of the following points regarding Roberta Grossman's Holocaust documentary Blessed Is The Match: The Life And Death Of Hannah Senesh is moot: 1) Grossman paints too saintly a portrait of this courageous young woman; 2) There is not... ... Full Article

What Happened to it and Will We Ever See It? There have been a few movies in Hollywood lore that have been made and barely released in the United States, especially in the last thirty years. ... Full Article