"The Day the Clown Cried" finally may have a release date

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Jerry Lewis, the mid-century comedic actor who supposedly used to say "Froinlaven!" and "Nice lady!" keeps the only copy of his bizarre 1972 holocaust movie, The Day the Clown Cried in a vault, and away from possible viewers, because of its reputation for being the shittiest movie of all time. But the government has reached into Lewis' vault, and pried out The Day the Clown Cried. Now, anyone who plans to stay alive for ten more years just might have a shot at actually seeing it.
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Dr. Meme said:
how is it the worst movie ever if no one has seen it
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"With most of these kinds of things, you find that the anticipation, or the concept, is better than the thing itself. But seeing this film was really awe-inspiring, in that you are rarely in the presence of a perfect object. This was a perfect object. This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is. "Oh My God!" — that's all you can say."

- Harry Shearer, one of the lucky few (or cursed) to see the film

Patton Oswalt also devotes a chapter to it in his memoir, Silver Screen Fiend, when he and other comedians would do love readings of the screenplay. He, too, believes it is a thing to behold.

Also, here's the screenplay.
 
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I'm happy to see that this is happening - we're finally going to get a film that's the stuff of legends released to the public.

But that won't be for another decade, so there's not much to say until then.

https://books.google.com/books?id=b...ItObrtM6yxwIVjZeICh2vnQa7#v=onepage&q&f=false

Here's the Spy Magazine article that Harry Shearer was interviewed for; it contains all the info you need about the film.
 
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(Once again, I'm mildly surprised by the reminder that Jerry Lewis is still alive!)

Anachronistic subject matter aside, damned if everything we know about that movie doesn't seem like it belongs to 1927, when sound film was completely new and nobody knew what they were doing - certainly not 1972. Speaking generally, it's hard to shake the feeling that Jerry Lewis never really figured out how to be a filmmaker and kept trying to site his character onstage, but in the absence of live audience feedback and surrounded by sycophants, he just crawled up his butt and metastazised. As the apotheosis of a certain species of cringe, how can one help but have expectations for The Day the Clown Cried?

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kiwi farms dramatic reading?
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@flossman ? @Frank Rizzo ? Your people need you.
 
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buster_kitten said:
Speaking generally, it's hard to shake the feeling that Jerry Lewis never really figured out how to be a filmmaker and kept trying to site his character onstage, but in the absence of live audience feedback and surrounded by sycophants, he just crawled up his butt and metastazised.
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Didn't the French really like his movies? Not that that explains anything, really, but...
 
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