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

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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.

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English

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