Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
An eccentric professor invents wacky machinery, but can’t seem to make ends meet. When he invents a revolutionary car…
- Director:Ken Hughes
- Genre:Family | Comedy | Musical | Fantasy
- Runtime:144 minutes
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
The time is the 1910s. Jeremy and Jemima Potts are playing in a wrecked car in Mr. Coggins’ junkyard. The wreck, Coggins explains to a potential customer, was a winning Grand Prix race car until it crashed. The customer is only interested in it for salvage, but Coggins accepts his offer, much to the children’s dismay.
On the way home, the children meet the beautiful Truly, who demands to know why they are not in school. They take her home to their windmill, where she is introduced to their eccentric father, Caractacus Potts—who is about to make an attempt to fly—and the equally eccentric Grandpa Potts, who, resplendent in soldiers’ uniform, explains that he is going to India for “a cup of tea with the Maharaja”, before disappearing into the outhouse at the end of the garden. Truly shows interest in Caractacus’ odd inventions, but he is affronted by her attempts to tell him that his children should be in school. Angrily, she leaves.
The children tell Caractacus about the car, and he promises to try and get it, although he can’t afford to outbid the scrap man. Edison, the family dog, discovers that the supposedly useless “sweets with holes in”, made by Caractacus, can whistle. Caractacus goes to a local sweet factory the next day, and attempts to show his new candy to Lord Scrumptious, who turns out to be Truly’s father. He initially refuses to look at the sweets, but eventually gives in, and finds he likes them. However, the whistling attracts every dog in the village, and they ruin the factory’s confectionery, and Lord Scrumptious throws Caractacus out.
Caractacus takes his automatic hair-cutting machine to the fair in an effort to raise money. Carried away with his spiel, Caractacus’ first customer ends up half-bald, and chases him all around the fair. In order to escape, Caractacus disguises himself as one of the dancers in a musical revue. The other dancers are so impressed that they share the money which the audience gives them for the performances, earning enough to buy the old car.Read more
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