Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 children's musical adventure film directed by Ken Hughes and produced by Albert R. Broccoli. It stars Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe, Anna Quayle, Benny Hill, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, Heather Ripley and Adrian Hall. The film is based on the 1964 children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car by Ian Fleming, with a screenplay co-written by Hughes and Roald Dahl.
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| Running time | 145 minutes
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $10 million or $12 million
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| Box office | $7.5 million (rentals)
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- Dick Van Dyke's character was named for Caractacus, the last independent ruler of England before the Roman conquest of southern England.
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# Lionel Jeffries played Dick Van Dyke's father, despite the fact that Dick Van Dyke is actually seven months older than Jeffries. - #
# Phil Collins claims he was one of the children storming the castle at the end of the film but was edited out because of a rather large and unsightly bandage on his head that was covering a cyst. - The first non-Disney film to feature songs by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.
- In addition to several partial mock-ups of the car used for the purposes of filming, one real, custom-built Chitty Chitty Bang Bang automobile was constructed for the film. It survives today, privately owned, and often appears at special events. The car is street-legal and is registered as a motor vehicle in the U.K. with the same license plate seen in the film (GEN 11).
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