Talk:The Day the Clown Cried (Unreleased 1972 Jerry Lewis Film)/@comment-5962528-20130921181716/@comment-6115903-20130922162127

I beg your pardon, Bun, but the original version from 1962 written by O'Brien and Denton, has NOT surfaced online at all. There are several key differences mentioned in that script among other things such as the main character's name and that he doesn't go into the gas chamber with the children at the end, he stays outside. The script widely available online is Jerry Lewis' rough re-write from 1971, I believe. The character's name has  already been changed to Helmut Doork and he is a more sympathetic character. And lastly, the rare final draft script that came after that which they actually was used for filming, which I have on my hardrive, has several key differences in it. Several scenes from the earlier draft have been removed, and in the ending, instead of seeing him go in with the children and catch bread that he was juggling, after they go in and the guard closes the door, we stay on the outside of the buildingf as we hear the children laughing at Helmut playing the harmonica, we then hear the gas hiss and the laughter fades to silence. The final draft is dated March 1972, just as they had begun filming at the Cirque D'Hiver.