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How Footage From Jerry Lewis’ Dark Comedy About a Concentration Camp Came to Be Seen for First Time
Documentary 'From Darkness to Light,' premiering at Venice Film Festival, tells the inside story of Jerry Lewis' comedy 'The Day the Clown Cried.'
For over half a century, the tale of a missing movie has puzzled Hollywood: what happened to Jerry Lewis ’ infamous dark comedy “The Day the Clown Cried”? Speaking about juggling rights and licensing, Vollert says the project felt like an “extensive jigsaw.” “We never had the intention to release the unfinished film, because what we obtained was rushes, dailies and disjointed sequences. Despite being in the making for almost a decade, the intention was always to release the film to coincide with “The Day the Clown Cried” becoming available to view at the Library of Congress, one of the last stipulations left by Lewis in life.
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