The Day the Clown Cried to be screened for the first time in decades

It seems to have some similarities to the dreadful Life Is Beautiful

Jerry looks kind of hot as the crying clown.

on The Dick Cavett Show An audience member asks him about The Day the Clown Cried @ 6:20

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He was promoted as some kind of auteur genius in the late-60s, lots of plans for projects. By the 70s you never saw him outside of those telethons. Scorcese gave him a brief trip out of obscurity, but he never fulfilled his ambitions.

He'll be remembered for misogyny and cutting his kids out of his will.

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R6 Clearly no one cares, sweetie.

Helmut Doork sounds like a German porn star.

Timothee Chalamet IS Helmut Doork in The Day the Clown Cried Again

and he's brilliant R9 Will he eligible for an Oscar?

He was a total cunt.

The BBC did a report on it in 2016.

He tried to rekindle the old magic in 1981 to disappointing results.

I thought it wasn’t ever finished.

R14 after it's screened may be finished

Oscars all around!

The next Broadway musical blockbuster!

The still photo at R12 of him being "wacky" by getting his fake nose hung up on the barbed wire... OMG!!! The disrespect. Who on earth-- aside from Lewis-- could have possibly thought this was a good idea?

Jerry is unbearable in comedies and you want me to watch him in a Holocaust drama?!

Horrible man

Indisputably a classic, R16!

In all likelihood it will be mediocre/terrible. The 'lost film' status is probably all it has going for it

He was actually pretty good in 1995’s “Funny Bones.”

Sigh. Am I the only one who watched this last night on TCM? It is best that it’s “lost”. I’m a little surprised the Swedish kids ,gassed at the climax, haven’t come forward with their own recollections.

Was it really on TCM, R24? Good God! How did they introduce it? I'm not a big fan of trigger warnings, but in this case...

It’s a shame it’s been screened. It was more fun as that thing that’s so awful, you’re not allowed to see it.

No, R25. The made a documentary about it — and that’s what aired on TCM.

The "acting" in this film was laughably bad, by everyone, and not just Jerry Lewis.

TCM aired the documentary From Darkness To Light again this past weekend.

I agree with R2, Lewis looked hot as the crying clown.

Every time I discover a shitty little movie that is forgotten it will inevitably include the tidbit, “Martin Scorsese considers this a masterpiece. He screened it at…”

Martin saw everything as a kid because he had to escape the Mean Streets, Goodfellas and Taxi Drivers. It gave him Raging Bull.

It's deliciously awful.