Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
At a rural England garage, two children, Jeremy and Jemima Potts, find a car formerly used for racing in Grand Prix races across Europe until it crashed and burned in 1909. When they learn the car is due to be scrapped, they beg their father, inventor Caractacus, to save it; he makes multiple unsuccessful attempts to sell his inventions in order to raise money to buy it, until he earns tips from a song-and-dance act at a carnival. He purchases the car and rebuilds it with a new name, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" for the unusual noise of its engine. In the first trip in the car, Caractacus, the children, and a wealthy woman they've had awkward encounters with before, Truly Scrumptious, picnic on the beach. Caractacus tells them a tale about nasty Baron Bomburst, the tyrant of fictional Vulgaria, who wants to steal Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
MPAA Rating: | G |
Genre: | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical |
Country: | United Kingdom, United States |
Produced By: | Stanley Sopel, Albert R. Broccoli |
Directed By: | Ken Hughes |
Written By: | Roald Dahl, Ken Hughes, Richard Maibaum, Ian Fleming |
Cast: | Colin Rix, Monti DeLyle, Davy Kaye, Adrian Hall, John Heawood, Lionel Jeffries, Grace Newcombe, Bernard Spear, Felix Felton, Joseph Ross, Hugh Spight, Ross Parker, Jessie Robins, Sadie Corre, Peter Arne, John Baskcomb, Gerald Campion, Victor Maddern, Gerald Taylor, Janette Rowsell, Michael Darbyshire, John Crocker, Eunice Black, Dido Plumb, Jim Machin, Dick Van Dyke, Eddie Davis, Harry Fielder, Benny Hill, Larry Taylor, Theo Aygar, Max Bacon, Stanley Unwin, Richard Wattis, Desmond Llewelyn, Barbara Windsor, Alexander Doré, Gert Fröbe, Gabrielle Daye, Totti Truman Taylor, Arthur Mullard, Michael Audreson, Heather Ripley, Max Wall, Jeannette Wild, Anna Quayle, James Robertson Justice, John Ruddock, Robert Helpmann, Dickie Owen, Sally Ann Howes |
In Theaters: | Dec 18, 1968 |
Runtime: | 2 hours 24 minutes |
Production: | Dramatic Features, Warfield |
Budget: | $10,000,000 |
Box Office: | $7,500,000 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Netflix, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |