In 1993 the film critic Shawn Levy was working on a biography of Jerry Lewis when, sitting down with the comedian on his yacht, Levy gingerly asked him about “The Day the Clown Cried.” ...

Though it has turned into an obsession that led him to spend years cleaning up the rights, Jam's entry into The Day the Clown Cried began with a chance meeting in a hallway with a Rabbi. "I got ...

Buried and abandoned over 50 years ago, The Day the Clown Cried is a uniquely tragic story. After a series of rights and a media controversy, leading actor, director and re-writer of the film ...

The Day The Clown Cried was never released, and only a handful of people have ever seen it. But the unbelievable concept alone has been enough to make this lost movie a holy grail for curious film ...

There's perhaps no single more infamous scrapped film than The Day the Clown Cried, a 1972 drama written, directed, and starring Jerry Lee Lewis as a German circus clown who is imprisoned in a ...

Footage from Jerry Lewis' unreleased Holocaust film The Day the Clown Cried will screen at this year's Venice Film Festival.

G oing into the documentary "From Darkness to Light," most reasonably well-informed movie fans would know three things about ...

In 2013, while at the Cannes Film Festival, Lewis said "The Day the Clown Cried" was "all bad." "It was bad because I lost the magic," he said, as quoted by Reuters. "You will never see it ...

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