FILM + WEB > Chitty Chitty Bang Bang-Yesterdayland Movies

tmc_6882 · Post by **tmc_6882** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 1:16 pm

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Two great influences on 1960's film combined in Chitty Chitty Bang
Bang: the story came from Ian Fleming, creator of superspy James
Bond; and the setting, composers and lead actor Dick Van Dyke came
from Disney's classic Mary Poppins. The result was a quirky
children's adventure story complete with precocious tots, bombastic
song and dance routines and a flying car called Chitty Chitty Bang
Bang.

Eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts (Van Dyke) and his two children,
Jemima and Jeremy, purchase a broken-down wreck of a motorcar, and
Potts immediately goes to work on it. When he's finished, the car is
a shiny, purring beauty. Potts takes his kids and the truly
scrumptious Truly Scrumptious (daughter of candymaker Lord
Scrumptious, of course) out for a picnic, where he spins a tale of
the car's magical abilities to float and fly.

In the story, Baron Bomburt, ruler of a tiny potentate where children
are illegal, covets Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and sets out to kidnap
both car and inventor. The bullyish Baron gets the wrong man and car,
abducting Pott's loony father instead, forcing Potts, kids and Truly
to fly to the rescue.

While not the spectacular success that Mary Poppins was (or that the
Bond franchise was, for that matter), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
performed admirably, earning an Oscar nomination for its title song.

Release History

1968 - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Sub Categories

live-action
sci-fi/fantasy
musical

Studio

United Artists

Cast

Caractacus Potts Dick Van Dyke
Truly Scrumptious Sally Ann Howes
Grandpa Potts Lionel Jeffries
Baron Bomburst Gert FrÃ¶be
Baroness Bomburst Anna Quayle
Toymaker Benny Hill
Lord Scrumptious James Robertson Justice
Child Catcher Robert Helpmann
Jemima Heather Ripley
Jeremy Adrian Hall
Blonde Barbara Windsor
Admiral Davy Kaye
First Spy Alexander DorÃ©
Second Spy Bernard Spear
Chancellor Stanley Unwin

Related Internet Links

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Official Site

kb7rky · Post by **kb7rky** » Tue Sep 24, 2002 2:52 pm

Okay, and this relates to this board...how?

Doug

tmc_6882 · Post by **tmc_6882** » Tue Sep 24, 2002 6:54 pm

kb7rky wrote:

Okay, and this relates to this board...how?

Doug

"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" is famous for a sequence in which the female lead (Truly Scrumptious) disguises herself as a wind-up doll on a big music box during the climax..duh!!!

kb7rky · Post by **kb7rky** » Wed Sep 25, 2002 7:02 am

tmc_6882 wrote:
kb7rky wrote:

Okay, and this relates to this board...how?

Doug
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" is famous for a sequence in which the female lead (Truly Scrumptious) disguises herself as a wind-up doll on a big music box during the climax..duh!!!

Of course...see how long it's been since I last saw the movie...