Charly (1968 film)

Charly
Charly
	1968 theatrical release poster
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	ABC Pictures; Robertson and Associates; Selmur Productions
Distributed by	Cinerama Releasing Corporation
Release dates	June 28, 1968 (Berlin Film Festival); September 23, 1968 (New York City);
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2,225,000
Box office	$8,500,000 (rentals)

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 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]

^ 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.

[AFI-1] Charly at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

[tcmopi-2] "Charly (1968): Original Print Information". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on July 27, 2020. Retrieved March 25, 2011.

[variety-3] "ABC's 5 Years of Film Production Profits & Losses", Variety, May 31, 1973, pg 3.

[4] "1969|Oscars.org". Archived from the original on September 10, 2016. Retrieved March 18, 2024.

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