WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
1971
Director: MEL STUART
GENE WILDER, JACK ALBERTSON
ALL SEATS $12.00
We all know the story: Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) is a poor child in London, his family barely able to scrape two pennies together. When Charlie finds some money in the gutter, he buys a Wonka chocolate bar, which has one of five Golden Tickets inside, giving the bearer a trip inside the mysterious Wonka Chocolate factory. With his Grandpa Joe (Jack Albertson), Charlie gets his tour, and meets the strange, whimsical, and curious Wonka (Wilder), who has some very diabolical plans for the children. The filmmakers knew that Wonka was the driving force behind the story, and changed the book's title from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" to "Willy Wonka...", and Gene Wilder's outrageous performance made this movie, initially a flop, into a classic that has delighted - and terrified - children for generations.
DCP - Warner Bros.
