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

In an interview with SVT (via The National), The Swedish actor Hans Crispin said that he had stolen a work footprint of “The day the clown cried” Europafilm in 1980. He later made a VHS fooled and clandestinely screened the film for friends over the years. He keeps his copy in a bank safe but is open to share it with the rest of the world. According to Crispin, “you have to see it!”

To prove that he was not a hoax, Crispin showed his copy to an SVT journalist and one of Icon magazine. Now that he has become a public with his big secret, he said to the publication: “I think I want to put it back to the next generation. With today’s technique, it can be restored. I want to sell it to a serious producer who restores or keeps it locked, or restores it and shows it to people for purposes.”

An attempt to sell could potentially introduce many rights problems that could prevent Crispin’s copy from ever seeing the light of a projector. As for what Lewis wanted, he was incoherent with regard to his wishes over the years. “It was bad, and it was bad because I lost magic,” he said during the 2013 Cannes Film Festival (via Weekly entertainment). “You will never see it. No one will never see it, because I am embarrassed by bad work.” However, writing in your 1982 autobiography “Jerry Lewis: in person,” The filmmaker said that “the image must be seen”.

TCM viewers had an enticing look “The day the clown cried” when the cable channel broadcast the documentary “From Darkness to Light” in 2024. At the time, it looked like the most complete exam of the film we have never obtained, but Crispin has definitely changed the game. We should wait and see how it is prosecution), but for the moment, keep in mind what Harry Shearer told Spy in 1992 his experience by watching the film:

“With most of these kinds of things, you find that anticipation, or concept, is better than the thing itself. But seeing this film was really impressive, in that you are rarely in the presence of a perfect object. It was a perfect object. This film is so radically false, its pathos and its comedy are so badly placed, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it could be,” oh, “oh,” – That’s all you can say. “”

That this perfect object is finally made available to the public. This cannot do more damage to Lewis’ reputation than personally throughout his long life (he is probably better known to young people these days like the old actor of Pet who thought that women could not be funny). Nor can he cancel the legitimate greatness of the classics like “The Nutty Professor”, “The Bellboy” and “The Ladies’ Man”, or the indelible wickedness of his performance in “The King of Comedy” by Martin Scorsese. It’s time for the world to see “the day the clown cried”.