Jerry Lewis's "The Day the Clown Cried" discovered in Sweden after 53 years

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 The Day the Clown Cried, shot in 1972 but never released, was thought to not exist in finished form. But Hans Crispin, star of the beloved 1980s Swedish TV series Angne & Svullo, claims he stole a complete workprint of the film from the archives of its production studio in 1980 – and has been screening it for guests in his apartment ever since. “I have the only copy,” Crispin told Swedish state news broadcaster SVT. “I stole it from Europafilm in 1980 and copied it to VHS in the attic where we copied other films at night. “I've kept the copy in my bank vault,” Crispin added. Swedish actor Hans Crispin has a complete workprint of The Day The Clown Cried, SVT has reported. AFP Crispin recently screened a full copy to journalists from SVT and Sweden's Icon magazine to prove his claim wa ... Read full article.