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What is the best Gene Wilder movie?

by YPB Team

Mel Brooks classics, Pryor buddy pictures and a candy factory, plus the films he directed himself.

  1. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory — ranked #11
    Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
    The 1971 musical with Wilder as the unpredictable candy maker.
    1000pts
  2. Young Frankenstein — ranked #22
    Young Frankenstein
    Mel Brooks' 1974 parody, co-written by Wilder, with Wilder as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein.
    745pts
  3. See No Evil, Hear No Evil — ranked #33
    See No Evil, Hear No Evil
    The 1989 comedy with Wilder as a deaf man and Pryor as a blind one.
    705pts
  4. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex — ranked #44
    Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
    Woody Allen's 1972 sketch film, with Wilder as a doctor in love with a sheep.
    423pts
  5. Bonnie and Clyde — ranked #55
    Bonnie and Clyde
    Arthur Penn's 1967 crime landmark, with Wilder's film debut as a kidnapped undertaker.
    423pts
  6. Blazing Saddles — ranked #66
    Blazing Saddles
    Brooks' 1974 Western satire with Wilder as the Waco Kid.
    423pts
  7. The Producers — ranked #77
    The Producers
    Mel Brooks' 1967 debut, with Wilder's Oscar-nominated turn as accountant Leo Bloom.
    349pts
  8. The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother — ranked #88
    The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
    Wilder's 1975 directing debut, a Holmes spoof he also wrote.
    349pts
  9. The Woman in Red — ranked #99
    The Woman in Red
    Wilder's 1984 romantic comedy, which he wrote, directed and starred in.
    349pts
  10. Stir Crazy — ranked #1010
    Stir Crazy
    Sidney Poitier's 1980 prison comedy with Wilder and Pryor, a huge box-office hit.
    263pts
  11. Haunted Honeymoon — ranked #1111
    Haunted Honeymoon
    Wilder's 1986 haunted-house comedy with Gilda Radner, a critical and commercial flop.
    163pts
  12. Silver Streak — ranked #1212
    Silver Streak
    The 1976 train thriller-comedy, Wilder's first pairing with Richard Pryor.
    163pts

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