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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. 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. But the whole scientific hocus-pocus, which causes his crisis, is irrelevant and weakens the movie by distracting us. The story idea is a simple one, which ...
Charly (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Relentless Search With the kids on a playground then on a college campus, Cliff Robertson, who played the same role on TV then purchased the film rights, introduced in his Academy Award-winning role as the title character in Charly, 1968, from the short story Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes.
- Ralph Nelson, Mike Blum, Louis A. Stroller
- Cliff Robertson
Screenshots. Charly (1968) In director Ralph Nelson's soap-opera-ish adaptation of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon, a sci-fi drama: the transformation of 30 year old bakery worker Charly Gordon (Best Actor winning Cliff Robertson) with an IQ of 59 into a supergenius via a science experiment and radical brain surgery, although at first ...
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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- Fantasy
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Cliff Robertson is at the top of his game as the eponymous character who has learning difficulties. He has been attending night classes under "Dr. Kilman" (Claire Bloom) for almost two years, determined to improve his reading and writing, and it is she who thinks it might be possible to get him onto a scientifically-backed course that could ultimately result in profoundly correctional surgery.
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