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Charly is a 1968 film based on Daniel Keyes' novel Flowers for Algernon. It stars Cliff Robertson as a man with a cognitive disability who undergoes a brain surgery that enhances his intelligence, but also causes him to regress.
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- Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala
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 ...
- Ralph Nelson
- Stirling Silliphant
A movie about a mentally retarded man who undergoes a brain operation and his love affair with a teacher. The reviewer praises the character development and the theme of the creator and his innocent, doomed creation, but criticizes the scientific explanations and the plot complications.
Charly is a drama film based on the novel Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. It tells the story of a mentally challenged man who becomes a genius after a scientific procedure, but faces challenges and dangers in his new life.
- Ralph Nelson, Mike Blum, Louis A. Stroller
- Cliff Robertson
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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Mar 8, 2005 · The message of Charly (based on the David Keyes short story and novel, "Flowers for Algernon," remains as powerful and poignant today as it was in 1968 when Cliff Robertson brought the story of Charlie Gordon to television.
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