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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 ...
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- Stirling Silliphant
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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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
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Movie Info. 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 ...
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A movie about a mentally retarded man who undergoes a brain operation and becomes a genius, but faces a crisis of identity and love. The reviewer praises the characterization of Charly and his tutor, but criticizes the scientific explanations and the plot complications.
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
