Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Movie Review 1971

When the last of five coveted "golden tickets" falls into the hands of sweet but very poor Charlie, he and his Grandpa Joe get a tour of the most wonderfully strange chocolate factory in the world. The owner is the most curious hermit ever to hit the big screen. He leads the five young "winners" on a thrilling and often dangerous tour of his fabulous factory. Adapted from Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Without a doubt one of the best "kid's" movies ever made; a family classic worth watching again and again.

Distribution

Home Vision Cinema, c/o Image Entertainment, 20525 Nordhoff St., Ste. 200, Chatsworth, CA 91311, URL: http://www.homevision.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 100 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Musical Fantasy, Grandparents, Books to Film: Roald Dahl, Childhood Visions, Edibles, Paperboys, Elevators, Hard Knock Life, Rags to Riches

Screenplay

Roald Dahl

Cast

Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Denise Nickerson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, Aubrey Woods, Michael Bollner, Ursula Reit, Leonard Stone, Dodo Denney, Julie Dawn Cole, Gunter Meisner

Cinematography

Arthur Ibbetson

Director

Mel Stuart

Music

Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley, Walter Scharf

Producer

Jim Henson Productions, David L. Wolper