Category: Family
All Genres: Family, Musical, Fantasy, Comedy
Release Year: 1971
Country: USA
Runtime: 100
Rating: 8 (0)
Languages: English, French, German
Director: Mel Stuart
Sound: Dolby Digital, Mono
Taglines:

  • Its everybodys non-pollutionary, anti-institutionary, pro-confectionery factory of fun!
  • Its Scrumdiddlyumptious!
  • Your golden ticket to imagination and adventure!
  • Charlie is let loose in the chocolate factory and every kids dream comes true.
  • Enter a world of pure imagination.


    • Writing by: Roald Dahl – (screenplay)
    Roald Dahl – (book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory")
    David Seltzer – (screenplay) uncredited

    Produced by: Stan Margulies – producer
    David L. Wolper – producer

    Cast: Gene Wilder – Willy Wonka
    Jack Albertson – Grandpa Joe
    Peter Ostrum – Charlie Bucket
    Roy Kinnear – Henry Salt
    Julie Dawn Cole – Veruca Salt
    Leonard Stone – Sam Beauregarde
    Denise Nickerson – Violet Beauregarde
    Nora Denney – Mrs. Teevee (as Dodo Denney)
    Paris Themmen – Mike Teevee
    Ursula Reit – Mrs. Gloop
    Michael Bollner – Augustus Gloop

    Music: Ralph Sall
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    Plot Outline: A poor boy wins the oppurtunity to tour the most eccentric and wonderful candy factory of all.
    Plot: The world is astounded when Willy Wonka, for years a recluse in his factory, announces that five lucky people will be given a tour of the factory, shown all the secrets of his amazing candy, and one will win a lifetime supply of Wonka chocolate. Nobody wants the prize more than young Charlie, but as his family is so poor that buying even one bar of chocolate is a treat, buying enough bars to find one of the five golden tickets is unlikely in the extreme. But in movieland, magic can happen. Charlie, along with four somewhat odious other children, get the chance of a lifetime and a tour of the factory. Along the way, mild disasters befall each of the odious children, but can Charlie beat the odds and grab the brass ring?

    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    At the same time as the end credits are playing, the film shows the Wonkavator rising higher and higher.

    Goofs: We know about 43 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Continuity: When Willy is coming out of the factory, there is a large shadow crossing the walkway when the camera angle is at Willys back. Right as he walks into the shadow, they change cameras to show him from a closer shot, and he is further back on the walkway and for the second time walks into the shadow

    Trivia: There are 52 entries in the trivia list – like these:

    • The combination to the first door in the chocolate factory is 99-44/100% pure, which was an ad slogan for Ivory Soap.
    • Voted number 8 in channel 4s (UK) “Greatest Family Films”.
    • The Tinker quotes from the poem “The Fairies” by William Allingham.