The Day The Clown Cried 1972

Jerry Lewis was supposed to star in this movie about a circus performer who must entertain children in a Nazi concentration camp.

The infamous "lost" film of Jerry Lewis, which was buried due to a legal dispute between him and the writers of the original screenplay.

It tells the story of a self-centered circus clown, Helmut Doork, who is sent to a concentration camp after a drunken impersonation of Hitler.

There, he befriends the Jewish children of the camp, and performs for them, angering the camp Commandant. He is accidentally sent with the children on a train to Auschwitz, and there, he is expected to lead the children, like a Pied Piper, to the gas chambers.

We'll probably never see the finished version (and that could be a good thing), though two drafts of the script FINAL and ROUGH , and FILM clips are around.