Long-lost footage has emerged from Jerry Lewis' never-released Holocaust movie

The finished product ended up being so unwatchable that Lewis suppressed all copies of the film, and only a handful of people have ever actually seen the movie. One of those—Simpsons actor Harry Shearer—described it as reaching an unattainable pinnacle of ill-conceived badness: "This was a perfect object. This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is."

And yet, much like life in a dinosaur theme park, the Internet finds a way. For the first time ever, footage of the film has surfaced. Much of it seems to be from rehearsals, as we see a circus big top with no crowd, and some odd voiceover that was perhaps destined for a trailer. But it's a fascinating glimpse of one of the strangest and least-viewed pieces of Hollywood ephemera out there.

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