Footage of an unreleased Jerry Lewis film, where the actor and director plays a clown sent to a Nazi concentration camp, has surfaced on the internet after being locked away since it was filmed in 1972.
In The Day the Clown Cried, Lewis plays a once-famous clown named Helmut Doork who is sent to a Nazi concentration camp in the early days of the Second World War. He spends most of his time entertaining the children imprisoned there.
It was never shown publicly, and several legends persist about why it was kept from the theatres, from budgetary problems to apparently aghast viewers who saw rough cuts ahead of a planned wide release.
The final and most notorious scene, where Lewis leads children to their deaths in a gas chamber, and then joins them in the chamber, was not shown in the seven-minute clip leaked and posted onto YouTube.
The material came to light in a Dutch documentary on the making of the film. The first few minutes show footage of Lewis dressed as a disheveled clown performing in the centre of an empty circus stage.
Most of the video is behind-the-scenes footage, with Lewis speaking with camera crews, looking at scripts and discussing the production while applying clown's makeup.
While The Day the Clown Cried is notorious among film buffs and historians, it had been suppressed by Lewis rather than lost entirely.
Speaking to fans at a Los Angeles theatre in January, Lewis, 87, said he won't allow the film to reach the public because its quality "embarrassed" him.
"I was ashamed of the work, and I was grateful that that I had the power to contain it all and never let anybody see it," he said. "It was bad, bad, bad."
In a 1992 interview with Spy Magazine, actor Harry Shearer, one of the few other people to watch rough cut of the film, said it was "awe-inspiring" with regards to how unsettling it was.
"This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be, improve on what it really is," said Shearer. "Oh, my God! – that's all you can say."
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