Page 1 of Interesting documentary on the world's most infamous unseen movie...

In 1972, Jerry Lewis made The Day The Clown Cried, a film about a clown in a concentration camp who led children to the gas chamber. No one has ever seen it.

This documentary shed some intriguing light on the project.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03dj9kr

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I can see with the subject matter why he did not want it released. It is anything but a comedy, in fact there could be no comedy derived at all from it. Maybe he wanted it just hard hitting, which was not his style, but compelled being a Jew to make it.

Being a Jew he though the subject was important not to forget, which it is, but most of us nowadays do not want to be reminded of the past anymore.

Myself being a 'just after the war' baby still cannot forgive what the Japanese did, (a lot of Australians fought in the Asian Pacific zone and it affected my close relatives who were at war against the Japs, and some did not come back, and some had a rather hard time, and could never forgive, which affected my attitude to them as well).

Funny thing is that I talk to my young nephews in the UK and Oz, nowadays and they say the Germans and Japanese are all our friends now. We have internet friends and go visit them, they say, So good on em.

After all the death and destruction of world wars, we are now all pals, and that is the irony of war, because after a few decades, we forget, and we are just at it again fighting yet more wars, and forget the hurt and pain that went before, and would come again in the future, if we let Politicians away with it.

Maybe such films as above, should be released every so often, to remind us of mans inhumanity to man.

And going by the documentary it looks as though this film will be released in 2025.

I've always been intrigued by this movie, as Jerry tried taking on the Third Reich in an earlier movie called Which Way to the Front, and while I laughed at age 7, when I watched it as an adult, it was bad.

But then Roberto Benigni scooped up Oscars for Life is Beautiful, and that got me thinking as to what Jerry Lewis was attempting with his more serious take in The Day the Clown Cried, if it was anything similar.

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"I thought what I`d do was, I`d pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes."

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A later USA sitcom did take on a 'POW camp humor' theme and that was Hogan's Hero's.

Though they did stay away from any Nazi stories, and made the Germans into bumbling buffoons.  

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058812/