![]() ![]() ![]() However, actor Cliff Robertson, secure in the knowledge that nobody could interfere with his behaviour on a live television broadcast, made no movements until the credits rolled, thereby preserving Keyes' original ending.Ģ. Owing to network pressure, the ending was rewritten to suggest that Charlie recovered his intelligence by picking up a copy of Paradise Lost at Algernon's graveside. Black and white? Yaffee based his screenplay on the earlier novella version "Flowers for Algernon" (April 1959 F&SF). CBS, in The United States Steel Hour anthology series. The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon ( 1961), a Television movie. There it has become a staple of English language classes and has hence sold over one and a half million copies.ġ. The story is known worldwide, but has enjoyed particular success in Japan as Algernon ni Hanataba o (novella trans Yuki Inaba February 1961 SF Magazine novel trans Fusa Obi 1978). Algernon, a white mouse, was Charlie's predecessor in testing the new Uplift treatment Charlie becomes very fond of him and identifies with him. ![]() One of the most widely adapted SF stories, Flowers for Algernon (April 1959 F&SF exp 1966) by Daniel Keyes charts the progress of retarded Charlie/Charly, who develops a powerful Intelligence becomes a genius, and then slowly reverts to his original condition, after an only partially successful experimental treatment. ![]()
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