| 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 |
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Running time | 106 minutes[2] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,225,000[3] |
| Box office | $8,500,000 (rentals)[3] |
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 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 that 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]
- ^ Charly at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- ^ "Charly (1968): Original Print Information". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on July 27, 2020. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
- ^ a b "ABC's 5 Years of Film Production Profits & Losses", Variety, May 31, 1973, pg 3.
- ^ "1969|Oscars.org". Archived from the original on September 10, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2024.