I’ve seen many clips before, but someone has edited together all(?) of the footage from this vaulted movie and it comes to 27 minutes. Some decent stuff.
I really does not look like a bad movie from the clips we see here, but Jerry Lewis obviously did not like it. I am still hoping the whole thing will either be released or leak to the internet one day.
You can see what we have here:
It seems to be “cried” not “died.” I was unfamiliar with the movie, by any name; here is some context.
Yes, I should probably explain.
This is a movie that Jerry Lewis made in the early 1970’s and then chose not to release. It is probably the most famous buried movie out there, in the sense he managed to keep it buried and no release or leak ever really occurred.
Last I’d hear, the Library of Congress has a copy, but won’t let it be viewable?
Dang. That’s an even more depressing plot summary than The Boy in Striped Pajamas.
Yeah, plot-wise that would be a very tricky movie to make. The danger that it would turn out sloppy and maudlin is pretty high, given the heartstring-tugging nature of the plot. And it is hard to imagine anything more cringy than using the Holocaust for cheap cinematic emotional manipulation.
ETA: Harry Shearer saw the movie, such as it is, and said:
“if you flew down to Tijuana and suddenly saw a painting on black velvet of Auschwitz. You’d just think ‘My God, wait a minute!’ It’s not funny, and it’s not good, and somebody’s trying too hard in the wrong direction to convey this strongly-held feeling.”
HAH!
We had some discussion of this a few months ago; apparently this footage was in a couple documentaries:
I’ve always heard that it was bad, I never heard that it had a budget of three dollars.
Which was a bumped thread from 2001.
It has been mentioned in numerous threads here, but here’s another dedicated one: