One of cinema's most sought-after lost films has been discovered after having been kept secretly in the collection of a Swedish actor for 45 years. Comedian Jerry Lewis's controversial Holocaust film ...

In 1993 the film critic Shawn Levy was working on a biography of Jerry Lewis when, sitting down with the comedian on his yacht, Levy gingerly asked him about “The Day the Clown Cried.” Levy knew the ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Day the Clown Cried, an unfinished and unreleased 1972 Swedish drama directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, is one of the most famous lost films in cinema history. The mysterious feature ...

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, ...

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 ...