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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.
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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, a mentally disabled 30-year-old with the mind of a child, works as a sweeper in a Boston bakery, where he is often the victim of cruel jokes made by co-workers whom he considers his best friends. In a fruitless attempt to better himself, he diligently attends evening classes taught by Alice Kinian.
- Ralph Nelson, Mike Blum, Louis A. Stroller
- Cliff Robertson
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.
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
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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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