| Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Jack Albertson |
Grandpa Joe
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| Michael Bollner |
Augustus Gloop
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| Julie Dawn Cole |
Veruca Salt
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| Roy Kinnear |
Mr. Salt
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| Denise Nickerson |
Violet Beauregarde
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| Peter Ostrum |
Charlie
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| Diana Sowle |
Mrs. Bucket
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| Leonard Stone |
Mr. Beauregarde
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| Paris Themmen |
Mike Teevee
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| Gene Wilder |
Willy Wonka
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| Aubrey Woods |
Bill
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Comedy; Family; Fantasy; Musical |
| Director |
Mel Stuart |
| Producer |
Stan Margulies; David L. Wolper |
| Writer |
Roald Dahl |
| Studio |
Warner Bros. |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
G (General Audience) |
| Running Time |
98 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
| IMDb Rating |
7.6 |
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| Plot |
Enter a world of pure imagination.
Promoted as a family musical by Paramount Pictures, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is more of a black comedy, perversely faithful to the spirit of Roald Dahl's original book Charley and the Chocolate Factory. Enigmatic candy manufacturer Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) stages a contest by hiding five golden tickets in five of his scrumptious candy bars. Whoever comes up with these tickets will win a free tour of the Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of candy. Four of the five winning children are insufferable brats: the fifth is a likeable young lad named Charley Bucket (Peter Ostrum), who takes the tour in the company of his equally amiable grandfather (Jack Albertson). In the course of the tour, Willy Wonka punishes the four nastier children in various diabolical methods — one kid is inflated and covered with blueberry dye, another ends up as a principal ingredient of the chocolate, and so on — because these kids have violated the ethics of Wonka's factory. In the end, only Charlie and his grandfather are left. Ostensibly set in England, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was lensed in Germany (as revealed by the film's final overhead shot). — Hal Erickson |
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| Product Details |
| Edition |
(30th Anniversary Edition) |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
Standard 1.33:1 Color |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
085391898122 |
| Chapters |
40 |
| Release Date |
8/28/2001 |
| Subtitles |
English; French; Portuguese; Spanish |
| Packaging |
Snap Case |
| Audio Tracks |
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono
PORTUGUESE: Dolby Digital Mono
SPANISH: Dolby Digital Mono |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Color Closed-captioned |
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