MSRP: $41.99
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, much like
The Wizard of OZ, is a film that was not well-received upon its initial theatrical release but gained in popularity over the years thanks to theatrical re-releases, television broadcasts, and eventually home video. Based on Roald Dahl’s 1964 children’s novel
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the title was changed to tie-in with a new line of candy bars from Quaker Oats), Gene Wilder plays the man-child reclusive candy-maker extraordinaire (Wonka would become one of his signature roles) who opens up his factory for a guided tour to five lucky children (and one accompanying adult) who have found a hidden “Golden Ticket” inside one of his candy bars. Four of the children are essentially spoiled brats, except for the last child, Charlie (Peter Ostrum), a local boy living in poverty with his widowed mother and four bed-ridden grandparents. Charlie chooses to take his Grandpa Joe (Jack Albertson), who now has the e