Today’s movie is a fantasy adventure film with a scene that happens on July 7. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
Car #3 wins several Gran Prix races, including the French Gran Prix on July 7, 1908 [1:07 to 4:10]. After a crash it ends up in a junkyard. When the owner plans to sell it for scrap, Jeremy and Jemima Potts beg their eccentric inventor father Caractacus Potts to buy the car. The Potts family meets Truly Scrumptious and Caractacus almost sells his musical candy “Toot sweets” to her father, Lord Scrumptious until a dog invasion of the factory in response to the sound. Caractacus’s hair cutting machine fails, but he makes enough in tips as a musical performer to buy the car, which he rebuilds into a splendid machine, which they name “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”. The Potts family and Trudy go on a picnic at the shore, where Caractacus tells a story about Baron von Bomburst of Vulgaria, who wants to steal Chitty. Pirates working for Bomburst attack, but Chitty becomes a boat and they escape. Agents of Bomburst kidnap Caractacus’s father. While giving chase Chitty drives off a cliff and converts into a flying car. They fly to Vulgaria, where children are illegal. The Potts family is hidden by the toymaker, but Chitty, Jeremy and Jemima are captured and taken to the Baron’s castle. Caractacus and Trudy are smuggled into the castle disguised as life size dolls. They, along with the kingdom’s children, freed from the dungeons overcome the Baron. They fly back home in Chitty and the children finish the story with Caractacus and Truly getting married. Caractacus demurs due to their different class status until Lord Scrumptious offers to buy the “toot sweets” as a dog treat. Caractacus proposes to Trudy and they are engaged. As they return to tell the children the news, the car rises into the air and begins to fly.
If my memory is correct, this is the very first movie I was ever taken to see in a theater.
Director - Ken Hughes
Screenwriters - Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes
Awards – The film was nominated for the Best Song Oscar at the 41st Academy Awards
Runtime – 2 hours 24 minutes
Released – December 16, 1968
Starring –
Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts
Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious
Adrian Hall as Jeremy Potts
Heather Ripley as Jemima Potts
Lionel Jeffries as Grandpa Potts
Gert Fröbe as Baron Bomburst
Anna Quayle as Baroness Bomburst
Benny Hill as the Toymaker
James Robertson Justice as Lord Scrumptious
Robert Helpmann as the Child Catcher
Barbara Windsor as Blonde
Davy Kaye as Admiral
Stanley Unwin as the Chancellor
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015.
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