A Boy Named Charlie Brown

A Boy Named Charlie Brown is a 1969 American animated musical film, produced by Cinema Center Films, distributed by National General Pictures, and directed by Bill Melendez, it is the first feature film based on the Peanuts comic strip. It was also the final time that Peter Robbins voiced the character of Charlie Brown Robbins had voiced the role for all the Peanuts television specials up to that point, starting with the debut of the specials, 1965s A Charlie Brown Christmas.

When Charlie Browns baseball team loses the first Little League game of the season, he becomes convinced that he will never win anything. Linus encourages him to maintain a positive attitude and suggests that people learn more from losing. When Charlie Brown remains morose That makes me the smartest person in the world, he says, Linus assures him that he will eventually win at something...but then promptly makes a liar of himself by beating Charlie at a game of tictactoe. That night, Snoopy has a nightmare where he is a World War I flying ace, and is shot down while fighting an aerial battle with an unshown enemy presumably the Red Baron, and he takes over Charlie Browns bed. When Charlie Brown stops at Lucys psychiatric help booth, she prepares slides to show him all of his faults the experience only leaves him more depressed. On the way to school the next day, Lucy jokingly suggests that Charlie Brown enter the school spelling bee. Linus, however, considers it a good idea and encourages him despite the jeers of Lucy, Patty, and Violet Failure Face.Charlie Brown nervously enters the spelling bee, and he defeats the other children in his class when he spells insecure, a word he considers his trademark. As Charlie Brown studies for the school championship, he and Linus sing a spelling mnemonic I Before E as Snoopy accompanies them on a Jews harp. In class the next day, Charlie Brown freezes when challenged with perceive, but he recovers when Snoopy plays the songs accompaniment outside the school. Crowned champion, the other kids cheerfully follow him home and sing Champion Charlie Brown. Lucy proclaims herself his agent, and when his friends suggest that he continue studying, he is confused. They tell him that he must now take part in the National Spelling Bee in New York City, and he is again filled with selfdoubt. As Charlie Brown leaves, Linus reluctantly offers him his blanket for good luck, and the other kids cheer him. ........

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