Charly
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.
Plot
Charly Gordon is an intellectually disabled man who lives in Boston. He has a desire to learn and has attended night school for two years, taking a class taught by Alice Kinnian. He learns to read and write, though his spelling and penmanship are poor and he is unable to spell his own name. He works as a janitor at a bakery, where his coworkers amuse themselves by taking advantage of his disability, and he enjoys playing with children at a playground.
More details
author | Stirling Silliphant |
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director | Ralph Nelson |
editor | Fredric Steinkamp |
genre | drama science fiction |
keywords | aptitude test boston day off disabled enhance flee intellectually disabled night school pick up spell teach test subject |
musicBy | Ravi Shankar |
producer | Ralph Nelson |
productionCompany | ABC Motion Pictures |
publisher | Cinerama Releasing Corporation |
theme | science fiction drama |