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 [1971 film]
Mel Stuart
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 [1974 film]
Mel Brooks
DVD
The Producers [1968 film]
Mel Brooks
DVD
Two producers plan to make a fortune by producing a sure-fire flop musical, 'Springtime For Hitler.'
The Frisco Kid [1979 film]
Robert Aldrich
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.
Bonnie and Clyde [1967 film]
Arthur Penn
DVD
Producer/star Warren Beatty had to convince Warner Bros. to finance this film, which went on to become the studio's second-highest grosser. It also caused major controversy by redefining violence in cinema and casting its criminal protagonists as sympathetic anti-heroes. Based loosely on the true...

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