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This week on Decoder Ring, we look at Jerry Lewis’s The Day The Clown Cried

Summary
Nutrition label
59% Informative
Jerry Lewis made The Day The Clown Cried in 1972 .
The film was about a circus clown who ends up in Auschwitz .
It was never released, and only a handful of people have ever seen it.
In this episode, producer Max Freedman traces how the film became such a legendary disaster.
VR Score
48
Informative language
41
Neutral language
84
Article tone
formal
Language
English
Language complexity
42
Offensive language
likely offensive
Hate speech
not hateful
Attention-grabbing headline
detected
Known propaganda techniques
not detected
Time-value
medium-lived
External references
3
Source diversity
3
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no affiliate links