Wild About Wilder: Gene Wilder's Best FilmsUnpublished

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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...

A hilarious spoof of every western film cliche in which a black man is appointed sheriff of a frontier town.

A Broadway producer and his accountant back a sure-fire flop: Springtime for Hitler. Directed by Mel Brooks.

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.

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.

The story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who robbed banks across the country during the Depression era.

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!