After some time passes, he finally beats Algernon and his intelligence begins to increase. Charly consistently loses to Algernon, but is selected for the surgery.Īfter surgery, Charly loses to Algernon again and is frustrated at not immediately becoming smarter. They put Charly through a battery of aptitude tests and have him try to solve a series of paper mazes while Algernon runs through models of them. Having successfully tested a surgical procedure on a lab mouse named Algernon, they are looking for a human test subject.
Anna Straus, who have been investigating methods for increasing intelligence. He works as a janitor at a bakery, where his coworkers amuse themselves by taking advantage of his disability, and enjoys playing with children at a playground.Īlice takes Charly to researchers Dr. He learns to read and write, though his spelling and penmanship are poor and he is unable to spell his own name. He has a desire to learn and has attended night school for two years, taking a class taught by Alice Kinnian. Robertson won Best Actor at the Academy Awards.Ĭharly Gordon is an intellectually disabled man who lives in Boston. The film received positive reviews and was a success at the box office and later in home media sales. 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 also stars Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala, Leon Janney, Dick Van Patten and Barney Martin. 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. It is based on Flowers for Algernon, a science-fiction short story (1958) and subsequent novel (1966) by Daniel Keyes. Charly (marketed and stylized as CHAЯLY) is a 1968 American drama film directed and produced by Ralph Nelson and written by Stirling Silliphant.
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