Jerry Lewis's The Day the Clown Cried

[Wellesnet]

Peter Tonguette, who has written extensively about Orson Welles and "The Other Side of the Wind," looks at Jerry Lewis' "The Day the Clown Cried."
"Why Jerry Lewis' Holocaust Film is Still Lost":
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/movi ... VxK7hOa830

[RayKelly]

For those who cannot get around the NYT paywall, here is a fascinating excerpt:

About 10 years ago, Bob Murawski, who edited “The Other Side of the Wind” (he shares credit with Welles), began writing to Jerry Lewis about the project.

Early inquiries with foreign studios dead-ended in a thicket of legal fears and uncertainty over who — if anyone — possessed the missing material. In 2010, Murawski’s lawyer finally heard back from Lewis, who, in apparent contradiction with earlier statements, insisted that he alone was preventing the release.

If that were true, Lewis’s death might have opened some possibilities. But Chris Lewis said he had no idea what the copyright situation actually was, or whether the missing material still existed. Anyway, the Lewis family has no opinions now on whether the film should ever be completed, he said.

Murawski, though, still has hope — and a good track record.

“It wouldn’t be the same without Jerry being involved,” he said. “But, I mean, Orson Welles wasn’t around on ‘Other Side of the Wind,’ either, and it was definitely a worthy project.”