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A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)

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Charlie Brown makes his way to the national spelling bee finals.

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Cast

Complete credited cast:
Peter Robbins ...
Charlie Brown (voice)
Pamelyn Ferdin ...
Lucy Van Pelt (voice)
Glenn Gilger ...
Linus Van Pelt (voice)
Andy Pforsich ...
Schroeder (voice)
Sally Dryer ...
Patty (voice)
Ann Altieri ...
Violet (voice) (as Anne Altieri)
Erin Sullivan ...
Sally (voice)
Lynda Mendelson ...
Frieda (voice) (as Linda Mendelson)
Christopher DeFaria ...
Pig Pen (voice)
David Carey ...
2nd Boy (voice)
Guy Pforsich ...
3rd Boy (voice)
Bill Melendez ...
Snoopy (voice)
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Storyline

Poor Charlie Brown. He can't fly a kite, and he always loses in baseball. Having his faults projected onto a screen by Lucy doesn't help him much either. Against the sage advice and taunting of the girls in his class, he volunteers for the class spelling bee...and wins! Next, it's the school spelling bee. Once again, a winner! Good grief! Now the pressure is on as he is off to New York City for the televised national spelling bee. With Snoopy and Linus present for moral support, can Charlie Brown spell his way to a national championship? Written by jlentz1@comcast.net

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The Peanuts' Gang in their First Movie!


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4 December 1969 (USA)  »

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Un chico llamado Charlie Brown  »

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1.33 : 1
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The first of the four theatrical, feature-length Peanuts animated films. See more »

Goofs

The amount of food in Snoopy's dish changes between the kitchen and his doghouse. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Lucy Van Pelt: Aren't the clouds beautiful? They look like big balls of cotton. I could just lie here all day and watch them drift by. If you use your imagination, you can see lots of things in the cloud's formations. What do you think you see, Linus?
Linus Van Pelt: Well, those clouds up there look to me look like the map of the British Honduras on the Caribbean.
[points up]
Linus Van Pelt: That cloud up there looks a little like the profile of Thomas Eakins, the famous painter and sculptor. And that group of clouds over there....
[...]
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Crazy Credits

The movie's title, "A Boy Named Charlie Brown," is shown in separate words, shot-by-shot ("A" "Boy" "Named" "Charlie Brown" in colorful text), against a black background. Charlie Brown himself appears in the next shot, with his clothes' colors inverted (with the black background), and they fade to their normal color once the background changes to yellow. See more »

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Referenced in Bottle Rocket (1994) See more »

Soundtracks

"Pathetique Sonata"
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven (as Beethoven)
Performed by Ingolf Dahl
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An animated film that would make Bergman proud!
17 June 2001 | by (Phoenix, Arizona) – See all my reviews

The PEANUTS films, coming from a student of international cinema, have contained some of the truest statements I have borne witness to in my life. If you were to really sit down and listen to what these characters say to each other you would be surprised at how much you can truly relate to them. A BOY NAMED CHARLIE BROWN is the best of them because it does the best job combining the artistic with the humanistic. Even though this is a movie that is defined through a series of seemingly unrelated moments (a fantasized hockey game, a spelling bee, a beautiful performance on piano by Schroeder, a baseball game) this only adds to the closeness we feel toward the characters. The tragic sequence in the Film where Linus expresses remorse for lending Charlie Brown his literal "security blanket" and seeks to find it is a sequence that would make Bergman proud! I rarely recommend movies that I truly like but I have to say that A BOY NAMED CHARLIE BROWN is a film for everyone!


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