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Charly (marketed and stylized as CHAЯLY) is a 1968 American science fiction drama film directed and produced by Ralph Nelson and written by Stirling Silliphant. It is based on Flowers for Algernon, a science-fiction short story (1958) and subsequent novel (1966) by Daniel Keyes . The film stars Cliff Robertson as Charly Gordon, an ...
Charly: Directed by Ralph Nelson. With Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala, Leon Janney. An intellectually disabled man undergoes an experiment that gives him the intelligence of a genius.
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- Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
- Ralph Nelson
- 1968-09-23
Charly Gordon (Cliff Robertson), who has an IQ of 69, is constantly derided by his boss and fellow employees at the bakery where he works. His efforts to read and write prove fruitless. But when...
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- Ralph Nelson
- PG
- Cliff Robertson
A drama based on a novel about a mentally challenged man who becomes a genius after an experiment. Starring Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom and Leon Janney, directed by Ralph Nelson.
- Ralph Nelson, Mike Blum, Louis A. Stroller
- Cliff Robertson
Reviews. Charly. Roger Ebert December 31, 1968. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Strangely enough, Ralph Nelson's "Charly" succeeds as a movie for reasons having little to do with the plot. As the story of a personality in crisis, it works. We care about Charly.
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Charly, American film drama, released in 1968, that was an adaptation of Daniel Keyes’s short story “Flowers for Algernon.”. Cliff Robertson, in the title role, won an Academy Award for best actor. Charly Gordon (played by Robertson) is an intellectually disabled baker who is asked to undergo an.