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‘The Day The Clown Cried’ Script Resurrected: Turned Into Famed Unreleased Jerry Lewis Holocaust Tale, Funded ‘Clown’ Script Might Finally See The Light Of Day
'The Day The Clown Cried' Script Set Up & Funded: Famed Unreleased Jerry Lewis Holocaust Tale Might Finally See The Light Of Day
Since then, numerous Holocaust films have drawn acclaim by telling stories of courage, and the unbelievable cruelty shown by Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Roberto Benigni’s Oscar winning Life is Beautiful, to the Barry Levinson-directed Ben Foster-starrer The Survivor, the Mark Herman-directed Boy in the Striped Pajamas, the Robin Williams-starrer Jakob the Liar, the Taika Waititi-directed Jojo Rabbit, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, the Mick Jackson-directed Denial starring Rachel Weisz., and numerous others All are hard stories by gutsy directors who importantly keep alive the memory of a dark moment in history filled with genocide and cruelty. Though it has turned into an obsession that led him to spend years cleaning up the rights, Jam’s entry into The Day the Clown Cried began with a chance meeting in a hallway with a Rabbi.
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