They’re talking about taking another crack at Jerry Lewis’s “The Day The Clown Cried” so I’m reserving judgement until that project moves forward.
Lewis wanted to adapt the screenplay about a circus clown who entertains kids in a Nazi concentration camp. The idea was pure Oscar bait so Jerry Lewis could be seen as a legitimate actor, but the movie was so legendarily bad that it was never released and to this day only a few people in Hollywood have claimed to have seen a scene or two.
Apparently it was screened sometime in the past 2 weeks, or at least the footage they have left of it.
The buzz I heard was that it was apparently arguably more respectful and tactfully done than The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, at least the actual ending scenes.
They’re talking about taking another crack at Jerry Lewis’s “The Day The Clown Cried” so I’m reserving judgement until that project moves forward.
Lewis wanted to adapt the screenplay about a circus clown who entertains kids in a Nazi concentration camp. The idea was pure Oscar bait so Jerry Lewis could be seen as a legitimate actor, but the movie was so legendarily bad that it was never released and to this day only a few people in Hollywood have claimed to have seen a scene or two.
Apparently it was screened sometime in the past 2 weeks, or at least the footage they have left of it.
The buzz I heard was that it was apparently arguably more respectful and tactfully done than The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, at least the actual ending scenes.
There’s a documentary about it that’s making the rounds on the film festival circuit right now iirc.
I don’t think there is a worse Jerry’s movie than “Slapstick of Another Kind”