On Wednesday, I became the first member of the public to watch something countless cinephiles have waited decades to see: Jerry Lewis’s footage of himself playing a clown in the Holocaust. Donated to ...

More than five decades ago, comedian Jerry Lewis directed and starred in The Day the Clown Cried, a film about a German circus clown who is promised freedom if he leads Jewish children to their deaths ...

Jerry Lewis’ unlikeliest project was also his unluckiest — so unlucky that it might never be finished. For a certain kind of movie buff, it is one of the last White Whales of lost cinema. In 1972, ...

One of cinema’s most notorious films may soon be seen in its most complete form after being thought lost for 45 years. “The Day The Clown Cried,” a 1972 film featuring comedianJerry Lewis as Helmut ...

Jerry Lewis’ son, Chris Lewis, has been searching for his late father’s most controversial film — one that never saw the light of day in its entirety. In 1972, the comedian left Hollywood for Europe ...

VENICE — Over 50 years after it finished shooting, Jerry Lewis’ unreleased, but hugely infamous, 1972 Holocaust film The Day the Clown Cried has been given new life in the form of a documentary about ...

Going into the documentary “From Darkness to Light,” most reasonably well-informed movie fans would know three things about “The Day the Clown Cried,” the Jerry Lewis Holocaust movie that is the ...