Film
What's on at the cinema plus reviews of the latest movie and DVD releases
Bookmark this pageWilly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Director: Mel Stuart
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Despite indifferent Leslie Bricusse/Anthony Newley songs, an adaptation of Roald Dahl's charmingly eccentric novella (a Grimm-style moral tale) which has the true magic touch of fantasy. Slow to start, but once the youthful hero and four greedy companions arrive for their prize tour of the mysterious chocolate factory - hitherto operating behind locked gates, as hostile as Kane's Xanadu - the film really takes off. Whole landscapes of candy-striped trees, rivers of chocolate negotiable by gondola, sinister caverns manned by orange-faced dwarfs into which the greedier children disappear to suffer torments of their own devising. Great fun, with Wilder for once giving an impeccably controlled performance as the factory's bizarre owner.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Mel Stuart
Producer: David L Wolper, Stan Margulies
Cast: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Michael Bollner, Roy Kinnear, Aubrey Woods full cast
Genre(s): Children's
Duration: 100 mins
Top Stories
Ben Drew aka Plan B interview
The singer, rapper and now film director discusses his debut film 'Ill Manors'
Cannes Film Festival 2012: final round-up
Dave Calhoun draws the curtain on the world's greatest film festival
Ridley Scott interview
Director Ridley Scott tells Cath Clarke why he's making a science fiction comeback
What do you think?
Post your review now