Jerry Lewis' Lost Holocaust Film 'The Day the Clown Cried' Found After 45 Years
2025-05-30
One of cinema's most sought-after lost films, Jerry Lewis' controversial Holocaust film 'The Day the Clown Cried,' has resurfaced after 45 years. Swedish actor Hans Crispin claims he stole a complete workprint in 1980 and has been privately screening it ever since. The film, shot in 1972 but never released, depicts a German circus clown in a Nazi concentration camp forced to lure children to their deaths. While Lewis himself had mixed feelings about the film, Crispin intends to make his copy available, hoping to preserve and share this historically significant, yet disturbing, piece of cinema history.