USA: 1971 -- Directed by Mel Stuart

Based on the Novel by Roald Dahl

Starring Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson and Peter Ostrum as Charlie

"It's everybody's non-pollutionary, anti-institutionary,
pro-confectionery factory of fun!"

Thirty years after this merry movie charmed audiences with a colorful mix of song, humor and life lessons, the Candy Man still wields magic. From the classic Roald Dahl story comes a lip-smacking delight with jolly tunes, among them The Candy Man and Pure Imagination. With a golden ticket young Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) wins a tour of the factory of wily mogul Wonks (Gene Wilder) and run by his Oompa-Loompa crew. There Charlie, his Grandpa Joe (Jack Albertson) and others discover a kind heart is a finer possession that a sweet tooth. So come join Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregrad, Mike TeeVee, Augustus Gloop and Charlie Buckett and don't forget your Golden Ticket!!!

Hope to see you there. I'll save you an aisle seat and an Everlasting Gob Stopper^tm

"The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last." -Willy Wonka

Awards

Oscar Nominee for Best Music, Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score Golden Globe Nominee for Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy – Gene Wilder

Memorable Quotes

Willy Wonka: Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.
Mrs. Teevee: That's 105 percent!

Mr. Salt: What is this, Wonka, some kind of funhouse?
Willy Wonka: Why, are you having fun?

Grandpa Joe: If she's a lady, then I'm a Vermicious Knid!

Willy Wonka: So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it.

Willy Wonka: Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

Veruca: [singing] I want the world. I want the whole world. I want to lock it all up in my pocket. It's my bar of chocolate. Give it to me now.

Willy Wonka: A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

Willy Wonka: Don't you know what this is?!
Violet Beauregarde: By gum, it's gum!

Willy Wonka: If the good Lord had intended us to walk he wouldn't have invented roller-skates

Trivia

As the group is about to enter the "nerve center" of the factory, Wonka plays a "musical combination" on the door. Mrs. TeeVee says "Rachmaninoff," but the score is really from Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro."

The picture held up by the Paraguyan newscaster announcing the finder of the last golden ticket is of Nazi henchman Martin Bormann.

Peter Ostrum, who plays Charlie Bucket, made no other films. He later became a veterinarian.

Goofs

Revealing mistakes: When Charlie and Grampa Joe float towards the fan, you can see the cables holding them up.

Continuity: Willy Wonka's shadow when emerging from the factory for the first time.