Charly (1968 film)
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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.
Charly | |
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Directed by | Ralph Nelson |
Screenplay by | Stirling Silliphant |
Based on | Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes |
Produced by | Ralph Nelson |
Starring | Cliff Robertson Claire Bloom Leon Janney Lilia Skala Dick Van Patten |
Cinematography | Arthur J. Ornitz |
Edited by | Fredric Steinkamp |
Music by | Ravi Shankar |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Cinerama Releasing Corporation |
Release dates | June 28, 1968 (Berlin) September 23, 1968 (New York City)[1] |
Running time | 106 minutes[2] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2,225,000[3] |
Box office | $8,500,000 (rentals)[3] |
The film stars Cliff Robertson as Charly Gordon, an intellectually disabled adult who is selected by two doctors to undergo a surgical procedure that triples his IQ as it had done for a laboratory mouse who underwent the same procedure. The film also stars Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala, Leon Janney, Dick Van Patten and Barney Martin. Robertson had played the same role in a 1961 television adaptation titled "The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon," an episode of the anthology series The United States Steel Hour.
The film received positive reviews and was a success at the box office and later in home media sales. Robertson won Best Actor at the Academy Awards.[4]