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A Boy Named Charlie Brown is a 1969 animated film produced by United Feature Syndicate for Paramount Pictures, directed by Bill Melendez, and based on the Peanuts comic strip. This was Peter Robbins' last voice-acting role as Charlie Brown before leaving the series.

This film features Charlie Brown and other characters from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip, competing in a spelling bee. Naturally, none of Charlie Brown's friends (except the ever-faithful Linus, who continues to believe in him when no one else will) believe he has a chance to win when he announces he's entering the school spelling bee. He surprises them all by winning not only the school spelling bee, but the city tournament, and qualifying for the nationals in New York City. Linus and Snoopy accompany him on the trip.

Charlie Brown very nearly wins the tournament, but at the last minute misspells the word "beagle" (B-E-A-G-E-L) and is eliminated, and returns home dejected.

In addition to the main story about Charlie Brown and the spelling bee, the film included several minor vignettes and subplots dealing with Charlie Brown's baseball team, Lucy's continued attempts to get Schroeder to notice her (including a visually and aurally dazzling tribute to Beethoven), and Snoopy's ice skating. Even Charlie Brown's old nemesis, the Kite-Eating Tree, put in an appearance. It also included several songs, such as "Failure Face" (sung by Lucy and the other girls to discourage Charlie Brown from entering the spelling bee), "I Before E Except After C" (sung by Charlie Brown and Linus while studying for the spelling bee), and "Champion Charlie Brown" (sung by the entire cast after Charlie wins the city tournament). Rod McKuen wrote and sang the movie's title song.

The film was partly based on a series of Peanuts comic strips originally published in newspapers in 1966. That story had a much different ending: Charlie Brown was eliminated in his class spelling bee right away for misspelling the word "maze" ("M-A-Y-S" while thinking of baseball legend Willie Mays), and then yelled at his teacher in frustration, causing him to be sent to the principal's office.

This film premieres for the first time on DVD along with Snoopy, Come Home
on March 28, 2006. According to , it will availably be featured in its original widescreen presentation.

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Movies - A Boy Named Charlie Brown

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