Jan 22nd
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory**
(US 1971)
Paramount. 100m.

A poor luckless child is one of five winners to the magic Wonka chocolate factory, but there are nasty surprises for some the other more selfish kids.
The darkness as well as the sentimentality of the original is surprisingly well maintained in this semi-musical version with variable songs, set for some reason in an international Americanised Everyland (but shot in Munich), with imaginative Lewis Carroll-like designs and performances that complement the novel.

Written by: Roald Dahl (and David Seltzer), from his novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".
Producers: Stan Margulies, David L. Wolper.
Director: Mel Stuart.
Starring: Gene Wilder, Peter Ostrom, Jack Albertson, Roy Kinnear, Julie Dawn Cole, Paris Themmen, Gunther Meisner, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Malcolm Dixon.
Photography: Arthur Ibbetson.
Music: Walter Scharf.
Songs: Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley.
Art Direction: Harper Goff.