Directed by:
Ken HughesScreenplay:
Roald DahlCinematography:
Christopher ChallisCast:
Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe, Anna Quayle, Benny Hill, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, Desmond Llewelyn (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
Children's writer Roald Dahl helped adapt this fantasy by James Bond-creator Ian Fleming. When inventor Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke) acquires a run-down racing car and renovates it for his children, Jeremy and Jemima, he makes a few extra improvements. The car, christened Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, now has the ability to fly, and takes the Potts and their friend, Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes) on an exciting adventure. Arriving in the kingdom of wicked Baron Bomburst (Gert Frobe), they find themselves pursued by the evil Child Catcher (Robert Helpmann), while the Baron, desperate to get his hands on the car, kidnaps Jeremy and Jemima's grandfather (Lionel Jeffries) by mistake. (20th Century Fox AU)
(more)Cast
Dick Van Dyke
USA
Best movies:
Mary Poppins (1964)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Never a Dull Moment (1968)
Sally Ann Howes
UK
Best movies:
Anna Karenina (1948)
Dead of Night (1945)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Lionel Jeffries
UK
Best movies:
Lust for Life (1956)
The Nun's Story (1959)
The 13 Chairs (1969)
Gert Fröbe
German Empire
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
Goldfinger (1964)
It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)
Anna Quayle
UK
Best movies:
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
Benny Hill
UK
Best movies:
Robert Helpmann
Australia
Best movies:
Desmond Llewelyn
UK
Best movies:
Goldfinger (1964)
Hamlet (1948)
Cleopatra (1963)
Victor Maddern
UK
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
John Crocker
UK
Best movies:
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Richard Wattis
UK
Best movies:
Bon Voyage! (1962)
The Longest Day (1962)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
John Baskcomb
UK
Best movies:
Battle of Britain (1969)
Oliver! (1968)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Barbara Windsor
UK
Best movies:
It Couldn't Happen Here (1987)
Comrades (1986)
The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)
Peter Arne
Malaysia
Best movies:
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
Straw Dogs (1971)
The Far Pavilions (1984) (series)
Gabrielle Daye
UK
Best movies:
10 Rillington Place (1971)
The Patricia Neal Story (1981) (TV movie)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Bernard Spear
UK
Best movies:
Yentl (1983)
Bedazzled (1967)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Totti Truman Taylor
UK
Best movies:
A Stitch in Time (1963)
Press for Time (1966)
The Wrong Box (1966)
Felix Felton
UK
Best movies:
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
Doctor in the House (1954)