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- 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.
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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.
Charlie Gordon is a 37-year-old man with an IQ of 68 who works a menial job as a janitor at a factory. [ a ] At his job, his main "friends" are his co-workers Joe Carp and Frank Reilly, but little does he know that Joe and Frank frequently bully and mock him behind his back.
Charly: Directed by Ralph Nelson. With Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala, Leon Janney. An intellectually disabled man undergoes an experiment that gives him the intelligence of a genius.
- (7.4K)
- Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
- Ralph Nelson
- 1968-09-23
Sep 6, 2024 · Robertson earned an Emmy nomination in 1961 for his performance in The United States Steel Hour’s “The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon,” which was based on Daniel Keyes’s short story “Flowers for Algernon” (1959). Robertson played a mentally disabled floor sweeper who becomes a genius through the aid of surgery, only to revert after a ...
- Karen Sparks
Charly Gordon (Cliff Robertson), who has an IQ of 69, is constantly derided by his boss and fellow employees at the bakery where he works. His efforts to read and write prove fruitless.
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- Ralph Nelson
- PG
- Cliff Robertson
Feb 22, 2018 · Cliff Robertson did an amazing job as Charlie Gordon; this film actually won him an Oscar, and I believe he absolutely deserved it. Cliff’s ability to show the dichotomy between the less intelligent Charlie and the genius version of Charlie is incredible.
Jun 9, 2020 · 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 did for Algernon, a laboratory mouse who also underwent the same procedure; additional roles are co-played by Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala, Leon Janney, and Dick Van Patten.
