A movie myth of the 70's has been leaked online.

The Day The Clown Cried, a holocaust movie where Jerry Lewis (both actor and director) stars as a washed up clown and ends up in a Nazi concentration camp. He must make the difficult act of using his skills to lure Jewish children into their deaths.

Lewis himself has done everything he could to hide the movie, calling it a shame. He only wanted his film to be visible when it becomes open source, years after the death of the creator. However some versions of the movie survived and was leaked. The film is also undisturbed at the Library of Congress when he donated a number of his films, including this one.

Having seen the 30 minute rough cut of it, I really don't see how it's "shameful". I mean yeah, it's blatant Oscar bait, but it's not as pandering as 12 Years A Slave. I think Lewis is being a bit too hard on himself here.