Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 100 min

genre: fantasy

theme: musical

director: Mel Stuart

Score: 8 / 10

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 American musical fantasy film directed by Mel Stuart from a screenplay by Roald Dahl, based on Dahl's 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It stars Gene Wilder as chocolatier Willy Wonka. The film tells the story of a poor child named Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) who, upon finding a Golden Ticket in a chocolate bar, wins the chance to visit Willy Wonka's chocolate factory along with four other children from around the world.

Plot

Charlie Bucket, a 12-year-old paperboy from a poor family, passes by Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, where a tinker tells him that nobody ever enters or exits the building. His grandfather, Joe, reveals that Wonka once shut down the factory due to espionage from rival confectioners. Though production resumed three years later, the factory remained closed to the public and the identities of the new workers remain unknown.

Cast

More details

author	David Seltzer Roald Dahl
contentLocation	Europe
director	Mel Stuart
editor	David Saxon
genre	fantasy
keywords	build charlie bucket espionage everlasting gobstopper expel factory fall follow gluttonous gluttony golden goose id industrial espionage joe mysterious man spoil tick tinker united kingdom united states west germany whisper willy wonka wonka bar
musicBy	Anthony Newley Leslie Bricusse
nomination	Academy Award for Best Original Song Score
producer	David L. Wolper Stan Margulies
productionCompany	The Quaker Oats Company Wolper Pictures
publisher	Paramount Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures
recordedAt	Germany
theme	children's musical psychedelic sponsored