As mentioned in this article, we seem to be closing in on the day when some members of the public will see a print of the notorious Jerry Lewis film, The Day the Clown Cried. As I understand it, this never became a finished movie. The underfunded production shut down with many scenes unfilmed and after a while, it simply became impossible to go back and resume shooting.
A friend of mine who was for a while obsessed with knowing everything there was to know about this movie told me, "If it's ever made public, you'll probably see a mess of someone trying to an arrange an incomplete batch of clips into something coherent." For a while, Jerry refused to discuss it but late in life, he did talk about it, acknowledging it as a failure on his part. I just smell disappointment coming. It may not even be bad enough for those who are dying to chortle at its rumored awfulness.