An Infamous Lost Jerry Lewis Movie May Finally See The Light Of Day - SlashFilm

Movies Drama Movies ByJeremy Smith May 31, 2025 8:45 am EST The Syndicate Film history is sadly rife with instances of lost movies. These are films that, either through accident or indifference, have seemingly vanished from existence. Film lovers hold out hope that some intrepid archivist will track down a print of, say, Orson Welles' cut of "The Magnificent Ambersons" or Tod Browning's silent horror picture "London After Midnight" (starring Lon Chaney as a terrifying figure with razor-sharp teeth), but with each passing year, it feels less and less likely that there's a copy waiting to be rescued from a mislabeled can in some South American storage facility.The most infamous lost film of all time was, for many decades, not technically lost at all. It was simply unseeable. I'm referring, of course, to Jerry Lewis' "The Day the Clown Cried," a World War II drama about a German clown who, after being sent to a concentration camp for making light of Adolf Hitler, finds a measure of solace...