I mean this guy made some real stinkers. His best role is the spokesperson for Muscular Dystrophy.
And THIS movie is so bad, he never wanted it shown? IT HAD TO BE REALLY BAD.
The Day the Clown Cried is an unreleased 1972 American drama film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis. It is based on a script of the same name[1] by Joan O'Brien, who had co-written the original script with Charles Denton ten years previously.[2] The film was met with controversy regarding its premise and content, which features a circus clown who is imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. Lewis repeatedly insisted that The Day the Clown Cried would never be released because it is an embarrassingly "bad work" of which he was ashamed.
