Many a film geek thought it an urban legend – Jerry Lewis’ The Day the Clown Cried. But it exists and here’s footage that proves it.
The film’s description is just too morbid to explain, read the Wiki yourself if you like being depressed, just know that it has the three elements you never enjoy in a movie – Nazis, clowns and Auschwitz.
Actor Harry Shearer (the voice of Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders and Principal Skinner on The Simpsons) has seen the full movie and has said of The Day the Clown Cried:
“With most of these kinds of things, you find that the anticipation, or the concept, is better than the thing itself. But seeing this film was really awe-inspiring, in that you are rarely in the presence of a perfect object. This was a perfect object. 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 like, improve on what it really is. “Oh My God!” – that’s all you can say.”
Jerry Lewis, who is Jewish, has vowed never to release The Day the Clown Cried so you’ll have to settle for this clip:
