Wild About Wilder: Gene Wilder's Best Films

A selection of Gene Wilder's funniest and most memorable roles.
Updated September 29, 2022
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Willy Wonka & the chocolate factory
Stuart, Mel.
DVD
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 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Enigmatic candy manufacturer Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) stages a contest by hiding...
Blazing saddles
Brooks, Mel
DVD
The Producers [1968 film]
Mel Brooks
DVD
A Broadway producer and his accountant back a sure-fire flop: Springtime for Hitler. Directed by Mel Brooks.
Young Frankenstein [1974 film]
Mel Brooks
DVD
The Frisco Kid
Wilder, Gene
DVD
A sweetly innocent Polish rabbi travels through 1850s America toward his new congregation and wife in San Francisco. Along the way, he forms an uneasy alliance with an inept bank robber and the two cut a pratfall-filled path across the wild west.
Stir crazy
Weinstein, Hannah.
DVD
Two losers are convicted of a crime they didn't commit and are sentenced to 120 years in jail.
Silver streak
Hiller, Arthur.
DVD
Everything you always wanted to know about sex, but were afraid to ask
Allen, Woody.
DVD
Allen rises to the occassion with several hysterical vignettes that probe sexuality's stickiest issues! Aphrodisiacs prove effective for a court jester who finds the key to the Queens heart - but that the key to her chastity belt may be more useful.
Bonnie and Clyde [1967 film]
Arthur Penn
DVD
The story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who robbed banks across the country during the Depression era.
See no evil, hear no evil
Worth, Marvin.
DVD
It was murder! The blind guy couldn't see it and the deaf guy couldn't hear it, but now they are both wanted for it!

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