Charly

Charly

  • Director: Ralph Nelson
  • Writer: Daniel Keyes,Stirling Silliphant
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: September 23, 1968
  • Aspect ratio: 2:39 : 1
  • Also known as: The Two Worlds of Charly Gordon
  • "Charly" is a feature film directed by Ralph Nelson, starring Cliff Robertson and Claire Bloom.
    The film tells that Charly is a 30-year-old adult, but his brain stays at the level of a 6-year-old child. With the help of Shenjing system expert Richard and psychiatrist Dr. Anna, he was turned into a genius through surgery, and the two experts decided to turn him from a genius into an idiot.

    Details

    • Release date September 23, 1968
    • Filming locations Longfellow Bridge, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    • Production companies Selmur Productions, Robertson and Associates, ABC Pictures

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $15,826,800

    Gross worldwide

    $18,530,000

    Movie reviews

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    • By Eliza 2022-04-19 09:02:44

      Looking back at the end of the world

      Constrained by the length of the film, the content of the original book that can be shown is still very limited, and it can only be approximated, and there is no slight adaptation that can be said to be bold and brilliant.

      One thing is that Charlie has just given up his seat like a human-like social gentleman, and in a blink of an eye he sees his own like-minded person not long ago, holding a large stack of wine glasses stacked on the cushion, panicking. Looking around...

    • By Cameron 2022-02-22 08:02:00

      [Film Review] Charly (1968) 6.3/10

      "If the plural of mouse is mice, the plural of spouse must be spice." a wisecrack from our protagonist Charly Gordon (Robertson), trying to convince viewers that it is something a genius would jest with his girlfriend, both sun-drenched, lying on a cozy meadow. But this is not the Charly we know in the beginning, and in hindsight, the opening scene has already presaged the downbeat payoff, Charly is a mentally challenged man who is miraculously cured by an experimental surgery conceived and...

    • By Linnie 2022-02-22 08:02:00

      "Charlie"-Mentally Handicapped Children Have Fun

      If there is really only one film "Charlie" that won the actor Cliff Robertson the 41st Oscar winner, then all the editors who edited the story of the film on the film and television websites did not watch it. I've seen this movie, although it doesn't mean it's not a good movie, but it still can't change. I was guided by the wrong introduction. In the introduction,...

    • By Ora 2022-02-22 08:02:00

      Movies are far inferior to novels

      First-rate novels, second-rate performances, third-rate movies! The director did not grasp the essence of the original work at all! Charlie’s inner struggle is not shown throughout the whole story. You say that the original is difficult to shoot, so you leave Charlie’s childhood and only use the thread of Alice to narrate. I can bear it, but I have seen Charlie staring at his tits all over. s face! Charlie didn't lose his dignity in the end, okay? His process from darkness to light and back to...

    • By Lambert 2022-02-22 08:02:00

      There have been

      "Charlie" is a mid-century movie based on "Flowers for Algernon". This book is a must-read for the eighth grade of junior high school in the United States. It is indeed a very fascinating literary work. I personally think that the adaptation of the movie script did not completely shock and helplessly use the first person in the novel. But I think the film failed compared to the original work because it focused too much on the love affair between charly and Mrs Kinnian, and another thing I still...

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    • By Janice 2023-08-09 20:02:07

      It is recommended to read the...

    • By Bethany 2023-07-31 17:37:00

      A mentally retarded becomes a genius and then becomes mentally retarded, but gains...

    • By Jarrell 2023-04-18 13:17:24

      When this film was released in Japan, it was translated as - Sincerely for...

    • By Carmela 2023-01-08 19:46:12

      The film's narrative is too simple, there is no better expression of the original, but the male lead is really very...

    • By Oda 2022-11-27 22:30:11

      The male lead is good, but compared to the novel, the movie adaptation is a bit...

    Movie plot

    The 30-year-old Charly is an incompetent boy whose intelligence is only equivalent to the IQ of a 6-year-old child. He works as a cleaner in the bakery during the day, earns a meager salary to feed himself, and at the same time has to endure malicious mockery of him. In order to improve his situation, he has insisted on attending night school, but with little success. His teacher Alice extended a helping hand to him. In order to get...
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    Movie quotes

    • Charly Gordon: [Charly picks up a book and reads from it] "My name is Dick. I live in a house. I have a sister named Jane and a dog named Spot."

      Charly Gordon: [He throws the book away] My name is Charly Gordon and I live in a room, and I got no sister and no dog, and I am stupid!

    • Charly Gordon: That, that is, is. That, that is not, is not. Is that it? It is.

    • Charly Gordon: Say, Miss Kinnian... where's Mr. Kinnian?

      Alice Kinnian: He died, Charly.