'The Day the Clown Cried': Video found from infamous Jerry Lewis film

'The Day the Clown Cried': Video found from infamous Jerry Lewis film

"What made The Day the Clown Cried so atrocious?

It was about a European circus performer during World War II who ends up in trouble with the Nazis for spoofing Hitler. He is then forced to entertain Jewish children detained in a concentration camp, which the guards feel is the easiest way to make them behave.

It ended with a notoriously cringe-inducing scene of cavorting clown Lewis leading the laughing kids into the gas chamber. Overcome by the grief of what he is being forced to do, he chooses to stay in the gas chamber with them as they are killed."

There is a great mystery here - the identity of the person who had access to this material, which Lewis swore would remain buried forever. The clip shown here comes from a documentary in the Dutch language, but there's no indication of who their source might have been. This material was filmed in 1972, and has remained hidden. During all of these years, nobody has suggested that such footage still existed, or even that it had ever existed in the first place.