Adapted from Rod Serling’s celebrated teleplay, this fight-film classic stars Anthony Quinn as Mountain Rivera, a veteran heavyweight and near-champion who suddenly finds himself washed up in the only trade he knows—prizefighting. Yet, threatened by gangsters for welshing on a gambling debt, Mountain’s opportunistic manager, Maish Rennick (Jackie Gleason), schemes to get the ex-boxer into a phony wrestling match to make some quick money. Although he and his loyal trainer, Army (Mickey Rooney), oppose the degrading proposition, the disillusioned Mountain begins to wonder if he has any options left.

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Charly is a terrific dramatic production which is based on the novel written by Daniel Keyes. The feature was executive produced by Selig J. Seligman (The High Commissioner, Garrison’s Gorillas). Cliff Robertson stars as Charly in this impressive dramatic exploration of one man’s transformation from a impaired adult who struggles to formulate even his basic thoughts and words to an intelligent gentleman after undergoing an experimental procedure that turns the befuddled gent into a super-smart genius with world-class knowledge.As the storyline slowly unfolds, audiences who experience Charly get to see the inner turmoil and struggle of this mentally challenged man as he attempts to overcome his high degree of learning disabilities. Feeling shoehorned in by society while surrounded by his much smarter colleagues at work, Charly doesn’t wish to be written off altogether by those around him. Though his co-workers at the factory tend to poke fun at him daily his own inner strength pulls him towards achieving something greater and more rewarding in life.

Determined to prove that he is worth more than others think of him, Charly agrees to a test experiment and surgery which is life altering. He meets the beautiful and intelligent Alice Kinnian (Claire Bloom), who helps him along his newfound journey. The results? Society’s undervalued, learning-disabled man turns into one of the smartest people around. And Charly might just find some romance along the way, to boot.

The film has a impressive production aesthetic which is strengthened by the superb cinematography by Arthur J. Ornitz (Death Wish, Serpico). There are so many sequences in the film which feel enhanced from the scope of the visuals: from the experimental nature of the detailed study being conducted in the film to the outdoor landscapes of Charly swinging by on schoolyard swings. There is simply something compelling about this film’s visuals and its hypnotic style.

The music score is composed by the brilliant Ravi Shankar (Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu) and is absolutely sublime. Having been a massive fan of his score collaborations with filmmaker Satyajit Ray and especially the work done on the brilliant Apu Trilogy, it was interesting to hear the Indian composer’s score style employed in a Hollywood production. While I wouldn’t say it reaches the same heights of some of his other work (from the Apu trilogy or the likes of tracks featured on the great Darjeeling Limited soundtrack)

The screenplay was written by Hollywood legend Stirling Stilliphant (In the Heat of the Night, The Towering Inferno). Though the storyline could have easily become overbearingly emotional or just downright offensive, the opposite is true. The film has the mark and craft of a genuine artist with a clear understanding of storytelling. Charly is a fully formed character and it’s fascinating to see the journey unfold for him as his life goes on such a peculiar swing-field of experiences while undergoing such a life-altering event as the brain-changing

Ralph Nelson (Lillies on the Field, Once a Thief) capably directs Charly with far more creativity than one would expect. Although the story feels like something which a Hollywood producer would want made into a typical drama, Nelson employ’s a much more arthouse style to the production with some interesting multi-panels in some scenes (bringing to mind De Palma’s Carrie and some of his other iconic works) as well as bringing a more artistic sensibility to the film’s conclusion. The creativity employed by Nelson can even be strongly felt through his choice of collaborators (especially in using Shankar for the score). Just like the character himself, Charly is a far better and more entertaining film than one expects.

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This is the story of a black man (Jim Brown) who has been elected sheriff in a U.S. southern county, due to the vote of blacks. He receives a huge amount of hostility from the non-tolerant white establishment, making his job very hard. The white former sheriff (George Kennedy) has his own struggle, as he balances his devotion to the law with his family and community relations. Things come to a head when the black sheriff puts a white man, the son of a wealthy land-owner of a neighboring county, in jail, and his daddy comes after him. Everyone around has to decide where their values really lie.

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Based on the young-adult novel by Alice Childress, this heartfelt social-issue drama follows the journey of Benjie (Larry B. Scott), a troubled teen growing up in South Central Los Angeles. Traumatized by his father’s desertion and unsettled by his mother’s (Cicely Tyson) relationship with a new boyfriend (Paul Winfield), Benjie begins experimenting with drugs—leading him down a dark path of heroin addiction. Now, Benjie’s family must navigate a host of challenges as they help him to overcome his dependency and get his life back on track.

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Eddie Pedak, a convicted criminal, has a steady job, a wife and daughter and he puts a down payment on a boat. He also has a police detective and brother after him, the first believes Eddie shot him, the second wants him for one last heist.

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This 1964 Oscar winner for Best Orginal Screenplay stars Cary Grant as a boozy beachcomber during WWII who monitors the radio in the South Pacific in exchange for shipments of alcohol. When lovely and structured French schoolmarm Catherine Freneau (Leslie Caron) crashes onto the island, an immediate and electric fuel ignites between the two polar opposites.

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The bond of friendship between a worldly-wise Army Master Sergeant and his naive worshiper.

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