The Story Of The Day The Clown Cried
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Jewish comedian David Schneider presents a look at some exclusive behind the scenes material from the notorious unseen Jerry Lewis film.
This programme contains occasional strong language, and references to the Holocaust that some viewers may find distressing.
I know almost nothing about the film not included in this video. But I could imagine a tremendously powerful film with this premise. A clown thrown into a camp and ordered to entertain children and convince them to go willingly into the gas chambers. Shown the consequences of defying the order - murder of the children who resist being led into the chambers. So he rationalizes to himself that if these children must die, he can at least ensure that their last moments are not ones of agony and fear. So despite it destroying him inside, he acquiesces and entertains the children as much as he can.
One of the guards laughs at his antics, and he breaks, he flies into a rage, getting in the guards face despite the guard being armed, breaking the jovial character and with ferocity lighting into the guard with a shout of "This is not for you! At the last, it is not for you!" And the guard is cowed and ashamed. Any 'comedic' scenes would be tainted with a deep sadness of knowing why they are being done, why it would be worse otherwise, and the only feeling anyone can have with regard to the holocaust - it shouldn't have happened. It must never happen again. And if the audience allows itself to ignore what is being done in the world and just 'does their job' or 'follows orders', as the guard does, it will happen again.
@@Augalv thats why you need to visit one yourself.
Yeah life is beautiful is a good movie.....
It will happen again.. cant you feel it?
@@corngames8982 absolutely. Just look at the charged right wing extremist climate in this country.
@@josephcontreras8930
Oh brother.
You have the kind of education a farmer could use for pig slop.
It's the left trying to destroy what the Founding Fathers fought for against the British-- freedom from their tyranny of the colonists. It's dumb mfers like you who are today voting for liberty thieves in the treasonous Democrat party. But treason is being reckoned with by a MAGA force not seen since George Washington's Continental Army won freedom for America in 1781.
As you have seen in the last four years the plan to destroy America by Democrats and the deep state has failed. "Covid" was the first attempt and at first fooled a lot of people but not most. And when you cheat you're not suppose to be caught. In 2020 the Democrats were caught. Now their attempts at letting in invaders at our borders is being thwarted. And a once thought of has-been is back bigger than ever.
The incompetence of the Democrat party has been freedom's saving grace. Come November you'll see the bull in your education from them. A new George Washington "dressed in orange" will be honored in the name of freedom. Thanks be to God.
You have a great day of liberty. That's what we all live for.
This could've been the greatest dark comedy ever made with such a premise.
Of course you can’t make child death funny. But you can make a great comedy around something like that. See In Bruges.
Correct me if I’m wrong, was this around the period in Lewis’ career where his popularity was declining ?
He had a niche /style you loved or hated, no real in between .
He was brave I’ll say that...
@@thenotmangaman8885 Anthony Jeselnik can make it funny
Robert Fletcher I’d rather see a superior comedian like Patrice O’Neal do it. Too bad his fat ass is dead.
@@thenotmangaman8885 It should be noted, the child death in the film is in no way treated as funny. The final scene is presented seriously and the dramatic end to the film.
Something tells me this could be Jerry Lewis's most heartfelt film
I guess we'll find out in 2024, that's when it gets released
@@lucythompson295 Let's hope so. 🤩 It may not see a wide release, though. 😕
When the movie is released in 2025, I urge people to show their support for Jerry Lewis by attending the movie dressed as clowns.
It's being released by the Library of Congress in June of 2024. I can't wait.
@@slow-mo_moonbuggy Thank,s great, but where did you get that information? As far as I have heard there simply isn't a complete film anywhere.
@@gerthenriksen8818 I'm not sure if it's complete. I watched a version on RUclips that had no sound but had some subtitles and it looked like it didn't have an ending. That video got taken down off RUclips. If you look online and search Library of Congress Jerry Lewis Holocaust movie you should be able to find information on it. Weird movie. I think it's 5 carnival workers in Heaven or limbo watching the events that happened to them in Aushwitz.
@@slow-mo_moonbuggy no it isn't. - listen to Lewis's son Christopher on the rarified heir podcast.
@@gerthenriksen8818 that's correct.Verified by Lewis's son on the rarified heir podcast.
The little red band on Jerry's lapel indicates he has received recognition from the France's Légion d'Honneur.
and?
My stepfather from Sweden was an extra in this film
Last night I asked conservator at the US library of Congress mount pony campus about the film. He told me that he had actually restored Lewis’ entire catalogue and had worked on the reels of the day the clown cried that are in possession of the library of Congress has. He said that while the movie is a fantastic piece of cinema lore, the actual film itself is an absolute mess, practically garbage. I’m sure that it is, but it was pretty cool to talk to somebody who had actually seen the film. It’s a real legend.
I think Lewis had great ambitions to make a poignant impactful and he could just tell that it was a swing and a miss.
I've heard of this movie for decades. I'm old, l hope we don't have much longer to wait.😊
nope, can got to Smithsonian and see the uncompleted film
There are two questions here; can there be comedy about the holocaust and can there be comedy during the holocaust? Most artists would say yes, but it's very difficult to do. Mr. Lewis's answer is perhaps best when he says it was not good. It wasn't the subject matter; it was the execution of the subject matter. Twenty years later Roberto Begnini wins an Oscar for a similar themed film in "Life is Beautiful". The difficult artist/ comedian question is if you make children laugh before they are killed, are you giving thema last moment of joy or are you fooling them at there moment of termination and indirectly helping the Nazi effort? Can there ever be a time of reconciling your loss of happiness while making others happy in the future? To me, this should be the theme that the film should follow.
Juvenalian satire. It’s not meant to entice laughter, but anger and distress.
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL! Was a movie a "comedy" movie that took place during and "about" the holocaust and it was done very well. Very tastefully and very funny. Check it out sometime.
What if the details of the history of the Holocaust were exaggerated and this movie is either intentionally pointing that out or unintentionally is pointing in that direction. It could bring about a healing.
The premises of the film sounds like it would have an impact which is really important to allow us to realize what matters.
Jerry lewis is probably not the man for that job
I think that yes Jerry was ashamed of the film but he still should of released stating that he fucked up and that he knew he missed the mark. BUT having to explain yourself for the rest of your life for a movie you hated to begin with also would be a huge headache. so i see it both ways
The video says Jerry's clown character is "forced to lead children into the gas chambers," but wasn't the story that the clown, seeing how frightened the children were, CHOSE to go with them into the gas chamber so that they wouldn't be all alone? To try and make their last moments maybe slightly less terrifying? That is what I believe Jerry was trying to portray, not "a clown leading children to their deaths."
It can be both.
It will come out in 2024 at the national archives
So five/six years from now
Lewis Estate must approve screenings, home video releases etc. It's possible it may never be released
Kings Gambit When the money dries up anything is possible.
Video Invader agree with Kinggambit.
Money does strange things and this films release would bring big dollars
@@kingsgambit9561 it will be never released
NOTHING should be off limits to comedy
Blind..Handicap..Female medical ..
Anything is funny until it happens to you. Good comedy can make a joke out of everything unless you punch down, in that case you’re not funny, you’re just Ricky Gervais.
@@finddeniro i wont make a joke about blind people.... what if they see this comment???
first rule off comedy, when you're a jester, you dont insult the king. But the king shouldn't be so harsh and merciless. Thus justifying the mockery of the king.
I get so emotional watching interviews of JL back in day, time is so short and precious.... his views strength make myself feel like a stronger better person and better overall outlook on life, giving thanx to each day, afterall, we are living now (2019) and in each day is a present🎁 praise lord
Well, maybe we'll get to see it next year...
These people talk out their asses for a half hour, speculating wildly, without once getting into the substance of this troubled production.
Mel Brooks was even mentioned, but I remember seeing an interview with him where they asked if there was somewhere he'd never go and he said "The Holocaust." The closest I can think of that he ever got was To Be or Not to Be and I can see why he'd never want to tackle it directly.
Mel fought in WW2..
Combat engineering..
The Producers..
Modern societies religion is essentially belief in the Holocaust. We treat it the way Jesus was treated in medieval times.
I heard by this time in Jerry Lewis's life that he had acquired a very bad drug addiction to prescription pain killers like Percodan. This could also be a reason why he was not pleased with this film and decided not to release it. In the moment when your working and very high on pain killers you may feel that you are doing brilliant work but in reality later on when watching what he had filmed Jerry realized that this was not great work and therefore buried it deciding that it would never be released.
More likely with a lot of his movies, lack of funding, jerry loved sponsors and product placement in many of his later movie's, it's been said that some of his last movies were nothing more than advertising for toothpaste, washing powder and junk food outlets
Morrison, Joplin, Zeppelin, Aero Smith and Hendrix some tragic examples of addiction that led to some of todays most renowned songs. Only the audience can determine what a film is to be.
Met Jerry during his tour with Damn Yankees, can vouch he was indeed unpleasant. Still want to see this film one day.
I too don't think much of Lewis as a person but I too would love to see this film. He may have been a talented individual but what an ego. And there are a lot of people he treated horribly. I hope the Library of Congress will show it in 2025, when they'll be allowed to do so per their agreement with the late Jerry Lewis.
It's going to be released by the Library of Congress in June 2024 as per the request of Jerry Lewis. He said by 2024 all the Hollywood producers that would have blacklisted him wouldn't be alive by 2024.
Did no one see “it’s a beautiful life”?
Fascinating documentary, but what's up with the weird audio?!
OldSkoolPixels com I think they cut the music because of copyright claims
Rest In peace Jerry Lewis (1926-2017)
It sounds like Life is Beautiful.
Chuck 25 years earlier than life is beautiful.
There is an interview with Jerry Lewis in which he mentions that film. I'll leave it here:
- Your official Web site, jerrylewiscomedy.com, calls your unreleased film, "The Day the Clown Cried" -- about a clown interred in a German concentration camp during World War II -- "a significant expression of cinematic art, suspended in the abyss of international litigation." Will we ever see it?
- That's about the only thing you can mention that I will not talk about.
- Why not?
- I won't talk about it.
- Have you seen Roberto Benigni's "Life Is Beautiful"?
- They stole the idea. And he's supposed to be the Jerry Lewis of Italy.
- Did you like "Life Is Beautiful"?
- I thought it was beautifully done.
I can’t wait to see this picture! It will win every award there is out there just can’t wait ! Jerry Lewis last act after his passed.
People talk and talk about this film, and nobody has actually seen it.
It was never released to the public.
That's What makes it interesting.
ferociousgumby Good job, you just summed up the situation. Guess I don't need to watch this doc now.
ferociousgumby Harry Shearer has apparently seen it.
@@bcanfield1860 I was going to say, Harry Shearer talks about it in some interview, he said it was a disaster, so that's obviously why it has never been released. Others have seen it too, the one who showed Shearer watches it with others occasionally.
i've been waiting for this film for over a decade. BTW sabbatti Tzevi would love to see it.
Saw a 30 minute clip video and this film is..... something else
Link?
Seems that Lewis predicted the dark times we are passing through. I can't wait the movie to be released ASAP.
Jerry Lewis was loved in France for being an Auteur.
He was loved all over Europe. Belgium, Czechia, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Romania, France, all over.
Anyone else have a hankering to watch House after hearing the theme in the background?
Should be released in 2026, 100 birthday of greatest comedian Jerry Lewis😊
This movie was infamous for years. I was at Jerry Lewis' ex-wife's house and got to ask her about it and she was convinced that if it had been finished and come out at the time, Jerry would have won best actor/director for his work. She said she still had a script in a safe somewhere. Gary Lewis was also still living with his mother and had the longbox from "Gary Lewis & the Playboys Greatest Hits" CD tacked on his bedroom door. It was a strange afternoon.
How did you come to be at her house?
@@kathykb8123 I was working for a record store here in Los Angeles and she had a "collection" that she wanted to sell. When I get there, she has a 4 foot by 4 foot wooden crate in the middle of her living room. They were full of glass core transcription discs of radio broadcasts used to entertain Allied troops in WW2. Very interesting, but with very little commercial value. I suggested she donate them to the Radio & Television Museum and was gone.
@@kathykb8123 Did you get the reply I posted this morning? I don’t see it any longer.
@@kennethnorman8079 No, I never got it.
@@kathykb8123 Well, I was working for a record store here in Los Angeles and I got a call from Jerry's wife asking me to come look at a "record collection" she wanted to sell. I went there and there was a wooden crate about 4 foot by 4 foot in the middle of her living room. Turns out it wasn't a record collection in the classic sense. It was a shipping crate of glass core transcription discs(about 1/3 appeared to be shattered). These were giant "records about 3 feet across that were played for the Armed Forces during WW2 and there was no way to really play them anymore. I suggested she donate them to the Museum of Radio and Television and left. She seemed like a nice lady who was once married to a not very nice man. You could tell she still loved him and considered him her husband even though they must have been divorced a couple of decades by that time. I guess that's not really anything you move on from.
I’m fascinated by the triangle on his character clown … visionary
Another thing I noticed... why are all the prisoners so plump? Especially Jerry. They all look very well fed. They don't look like any emaciated German camp prisoners I'm used to seeing.
Some camps actually fed the prisoners but as far as I can tell it wasn’t enough to sustain the prisoners so yeah it’s a little odd
22:58. I knew someone who had that phone.
RIP Lars Amble
@26:54 The moment we get the real reason why he's ashamed of this film. He should not have taken up the project. He didn't understand why he took the project. And he didn't stop it when he had the chance. He continued to film, even putting his money to fund it when the original funds ran out, just to finish the shooting. The problem was, how to assemble the pieces in a way that would make it acceptable to audiences in 1972. I guess that by the time it is finally released, even in bootleg form in 2025 (4 years from now), it would be more digestible to today's (tomorrow's) audiences.
Can’t wait to see this
I remember Harry Shearer saying he’s seen it and it’s pretty bad
I hope we see that film in 2025!
Me too ! Whether it's good or bad, I don't care. With it's incredible backstory, it would truly be fascinating to finally see the whole thing.
Underrated
RIP Jerry Lewis
holy SHIT i will be one of the first in line to see this in 2025 and i haven't been to the cinema in YEARS. I can't wait. i will be 39 years old when it finally gets released.
The fact that you haven't been to a cinema I years makes me quite sad. You're really missing out. There is some great art out there if you know where to look.
@d R again, great art out there if you know where to look. Extend your tastes a bit, you're missing out.
Hopefully along with citizen Kane rerelease boy in striped pajamas diary of Anne frank and life is beautiful and the pianist
Those teeth
He's got his own page in "The Big Book of British Smiles"
This film could’ve worked as a serious drama, hell it could’ve worked with Lewis, but in trying to make it a comedy, they screwed it over.
Exactly. Modern Movies like 2019’s joker have comedians playing in it, doesn’t mean it was to be funny. Most comedians are good at acting anyways.
@@Everettalla The movie was very similar to Joker in that it was satirical in statement but very dramatic and heavy in presentation. People would not consider this a comedy.
It has been seen by a handful of people, at least one of whom has not described it as a comedy.
sitting here 2/3 through 2020 and im not sure we'll make it to 2025 for the release
For some reason 70s Jerry Lewis doing a deep German voice reminds me of Jemaine Clement doing his vampire voice.
Only have to wait 6 months to see it.
Sad how art will be degraded by meme'rs who think saying "Hitley did nothing wrong" is funny. Makes me sad for the state of the world 🙍
Yeah man, that's why it important to be careful what you say becausr if you say something outrageous as a joke over and over it will become your true feelings very quickly
Are you a fan of mountain dew?
DIRT T RYDER that Soda is weird, orange lemon flavour, no bubbles
meme'rs lol
What a weird comment.
Nobody ever decides to understand the reason why the clown is crying while his greasepaint shows him smiling. They just think he's doing what the Nazi say they don't understand that he is just as bound to the fate of death is all those little children but yet he is doing everything he can to make their very final moments happy. It disgusts me how many people seem to think the clown is the bad guy. And yet at the end of the movie they change their tone because they didn't understand the entire presentation of the whole film cuz they don't want to bother to learn. Those people sicking me. That most of these same people who would be put in that same situation would have gladly become collaborators and happily watch innocent little children being marched in gas Chambers but a clown with a collar if he doesn't do this they will kill him and just forced to children without even giving them a chance to smile before death. This was a true movie about what true martyrdom means. That you won't let others died feeling as though their life was pointless or in vain
He said he wouldn't walk them to the gas chamber until they said it would save his own life.
Some very curious background music for this documentary, inspired in part it seems by Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining": 0:56 - Röyksopp - So Easy; 4:53, 5:30, 15:26, 15:50 and 25:38 - Krzysztof Penderecki - Als Jakob Erwacht; 7:55, 9:10, 12:53, 20:07, 21:05 and 23:48 - Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, 1st Movement; 21:57 and 24:44 - Sandstorm - Teardrop
Thank you so much for posting this! I was looking for the track @ :56, which turns out to be a sample of The Gals & Pals "Blue On Blue"
ha the hosts face is frightening
I was thinking to myself, man, that's one homely sum bitch, lol
Most stupid comment ever! And disrespectful! I would like people to talk here about the content of the film.
Letting out that pent up hatred I see.
THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED: JANUARY 8th, 2021: TWITTER SHUTS DOWN DONALD TRUMP'S ACCOUNT PERMANENTLY.
God I want to see this film. Never liked Jerry. Never thought he was funny but this fascinates me.
It's going to be available to screen in 2024
@@BeeHatGuy AWSOME
@@BeeHatGuy nope
Jerry was funny. He is my first idole ever since I am 10. Now I am 19 and I am an actress because of him❤️
@@nastasjaapostolska8550 cool can I have your autograph?
Was the sound altered on purpose to mess with people?
At least its not a Broadway musical like "The Producers" or Scottsboro Boys" - I somehow feel its a lost masterpiece that JL is too close to. He said he would do it again if he could, so I think its his performance or the sensitive subject. The truth is always sensitive if its brutally cold. They should interview everyone who was involved in the film - especially the children - to get their reactions and viewpoints. Before and ahead of its time; if you can take Schindler's List you can take this
Intetesting that there is no mention of "The Boy in the Grey Striped Pajamas", which managed to do "it" well.
Older video, TBITGSP just came out a year or two ago.
@@robcochran6213 the book is like 20 years old. And the movie is from 2008 lol.
lets see... 2025 is 4 months away...iv heard nothing yet.
There are so many well known Swedish actors in this - for that reason alon, being a Swede, I long to see this film
It should be released. There’re pieces of media which did release and has offended the survivors, despite being approved. I think as long as there’s a disclaimer then it’s fine.
At the end on the day it doesn’t succeed if no one laughs but we never will know the answer because it never released.
Spoiler: No one is going to laugh because it's not a comedy.
who has the reels?
For me, is an interesting movie, remember Life is Beautiful. A person that uses comedy to survive in a horrible time, in the holocaust, to keep the innocence of children. If this movie release to public someday, I would like to see.
He loves watching people watching him who find him adorale, even if they are paid to ask him questions and told to smile at the answers.
As fucked as the concept sounds I can’t help but feel it would be a heartfelt film with a horrifying premise
Meanwhile, shooting it in color made it look like a "Which Way to the Front?" sequel.
Hello? They stole the mans film idea and made "its a beautiful life" and it made money and got awards. A french film. Did he not film it in france?
also his number is 1349 which is the year that the bubonic plague started in scandinabia
I have seen the film 🎥, it is out there on the Net.
One of the myths of today is that there is such thing as a story that is too "taboo" to be told.
I hope Steven Spielberg gets this movie and fixes it up and presents it to the viewing Audi Ed ce like he did with 2 Stanley Kubrick movies (AI and eyes wide shut). This movie needs to be shown.
Yeah i get a feeling that this movie is like a early schindlers list kinda.
@@dantheman1998 No. They have nothing in common except Jews and Nazis. Moron.
@@dantheman1998 You do know that was taken from a book called Schindler's Ark which won awards for historical fiction. It wasn't actual history. You can look that up on Wikipedia. I'm so relieved that it wasn't true. That movie horrified me in my youth.
Nearly everything I’ve heard about this movie is that it’s not good….this is the general feeling
Harry Shearer saw it and said it was crap...I love how this guys is building it up to be something awesome.
Where is the film print?
US Library of Congress.
According to Wikipedia, Lewis´ son Chris says there is no complete negative of the film, yet the film was submitted to the Library of Congress. What does that mean "no complete negative of the film", can´t it be watched as a complete work?
It can't be watched as a complete film because it isn't a complete finalized film. The copy, that was submitted by Lewis, to the Library Of Congress, was (more or less) a work print rough-cut....the original negatives were kept by the original financier Nat Wachsberger for some time (now presumed to be lost).
I took one look at the host, and before he even said it, I knew he was a comedian.
But who decide it will be released in 2025 while he said ''it will never be seen''?
Lewis donated an incomplete copy of the film to the Library of Congress with the condition that nobody would see it until 2024/2025.
I've read the script and I believe that cuts could be made to make it less offensive.
In the contrary, I think additions should have been made. The likeability of the film would improve with a proper climax and resolution. Then people will forgive anything offensive if it is for a purpose.
Hey, Royksopp at the beginning!
lewis was not the executive producer and had nothing to do with the financing or people getting paid. in fact lewis put a lot of his personal money into the film to keep it going, thinking the exec producer would come through. it is doubtful it will ever be released, not even in 2025 from the archives, as the executive producer did not secure rights from the author. it cannot legally be shown.
Very very interesting story.
Very interesting.
I guess it was too ahead of its time. After all, we have "Life is Beautiful" and "Jojo Rabbit" now. Both movies are dark comedies but beautifully done.
laff, riot
After his death it wasn't unearthed
It's very simple why the film wasn't released. The producers' rights to the novel on which the film was based had lapsed before filming began. Thus, rights needed to be renegotiated. The novel's author wasn't happy with changes Lewis and others had made to the previously approved screenplay, nor did she approve of the rough edit of the film. So she didn't renegotiate, killing the film. This was all known at the time this documentary was made, so why they instead posit that it was ultimately Lewis' decision is disingenuous.
OK so now that he's gone, can we see the damn full movie now?
Same people who wrote the Bible, which is 100% true
This dude was in mad max 2 and 3, gyro pilot
I thought he looked familiar
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No, that was Bruce Spence. Completely different person.
I only know about this film because I’m Zak Bagans haunted museum in Las Vegas has a very short clip from it.
Did someone put backwards reverb on the entire video? It's distracting.
Comedy is very tricky. Even the very best has bombed on stage. Lewis isn't a moron. If he's hidden it, you can bet it's a real crap show. Maybe its because he worn too many hats during the production or his manic humor didn't translate well in a drama.
He tried to walk a high tightrope, without a safety net....a greased rope. I don't know how anyone can make this work, but I'm curious.
No ones seen life is beautiful? why wait for this movie 2024 ?
Whats that song in the beginning
What’s the song that starts at 0:56 ?
Royksopp - So Easy
4:34 *C O L O R C O R R E C T* !!
Such a blithe theme deserving of [camera] native color grade, no?
I know it is different, look at the Mel Brookes film, the Producers, that was released in a sensitive time period, perhaps Jerry felt, it could bring a lot of heat and hate his way, but 2025 is fast approaching, so a potential release, could be less than 12 months away, based on the date of me typing this post...
I really don't understand what the fuss is about. What could "go wrong?" How does one make a movie "wrong." The Death of Stalin was a black comedy based on the death of history's greatest monster-- Stalin. No one said it could have "gone wrong."
Also, Schindlers list was essentially fictional. It was very loosely inspired by just a few events. The source material was a novel.