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 In the pantheon of notoriously unavailable films, Jerry Lewis' "The Day the Clown Cried" occupies a special pedestal: Its scheme: a circus clown is imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp where he cheers up Jewish children before being forced to take them to their destination. Doom: Makes it one of the few movies that has been suppressed simply because of "yikes." It's perhaps unfair to compare it to "Freaks Out," the second film by Italian director Gabriele Mainetti, though given that Mainetti's film also involves circus performers, Nazis, and a trainload of transported Jews. to camps, which film the comparison is unfair to is up for debate. After all, the Lewis boondoggle didn't have a psychotic, ether-addicted, six-fingered pianist yelling "Sieg Heil!" and that he could see the future, and a lot of references to, of all things, Marvel Comics canon. A ghastly mix of dazzling circus-like maximalism, poorly CGI supernatural whims...