Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Directed by Ken Hughes

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) is based on a children's novel written by Ian Fleming for his son Caspar. Ian Fleming took his inspiration for the car from a series of aero-engined racing cars built by Count Louis Zborowski in the early 1920s, christened ‘Chitty Bang Bang’.

An eccentric professor invents wacky machinery, but can't seem to make ends meet. When he invents a revolutionary car, a foreign government becomes interested in it, and resorts to skulduggery to get their hands on it.

Director

Ken Hughes

Writers

Roald Dahl (screenplay) and

Ken Hughes (screenplay)

Cast

Dick Van Dyke ... Caractacus Potts

Sally Ann Howes ... Truly Scrumptious

Lionel Jeffries ... Grandpa Potts

Gert Fröbe ... Baron Bomburst (as Gert Frobe)

Anna Quayle ... Baroness Bomburst

Benny Hill ... Toymaker

James Robertson Justice ... Lord Scrumptious

Robert Helpmann ... Child Catcher

Heather Ripley ... Jemima

Adrian Hall ... Jeremy

Barbara Windsor ... Blonde

Davy Kaye ... Admiral

Alexander Doré ... First Spy (as Alexander Dore)

Bernard Spear ... Second Spy

Stanley Unwin ... Chancellor

Trivia

• Lionel Jeffries played Dick Van Dyke's father, despite the fact that Dick Van Dyke is actually seven months older than Jeffries

• Dick Van Dyke had appeared in several Disney movies prior to this. In a press release he quipped, "This will out-Disney Disney." He was banned from Disney productions for several years after this.