Charly

The mentally challenged title character (Cliff Robertson in his Academy Award-winning role) receives his teacher Alice Kinian (Claire Bloom), and they discuss his competing with a mouse to navigate a maze, and scientific options, in Charly, 1968, from the story Flowers For Algernon.

With the kids on a playground then on a college campus, Cliff Robertson, who played the same role on TV then purchased the film rights, introduced in his Academy Award-winning role as the title character in Charly, 1968, from the short story Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes.