Film Threat finds and reviews the shooting script for "The Day the Clown Cried". This is Jerry Lewis's film about, of all things, a concentration camp clown whose job it is to lead children into the ovens. "164 pages of misguided, disturbing, egomaniacal and just plain fucked-up material that would have the crowd at Nuremberg scratching their heads in utter disbelief. Not only is it horribly written and lacking in any humor (the script specifically notes when things should be "played for laughs"), but after about the first fifty pages what starts out as merely a bad screenplay degenerates into a deranged, unconscionable disaster that almost makes you feel guilty for reading it... almost. "
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