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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1964). Pan 1968 paperback film tie-in. 94 pages Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car is a children's novel written by Ian Fleming for his son Caspar, with illustrations by John Burningham. It was first published in 1964 by Jonathan Cape in London and Random House in New York, and later made into a successful film. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a childrens story written by Ian Fleming. ...
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Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was a British author, journalist and Second World War Navy Commander. ...
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 feature film with a script by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes, and songs by the Sherman Brothers, based on Ian Flemings book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car. ...
Writer 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". Count Louis Zborowski (20 February 1895 – 19 October 1924) was a pioneer automobile engineer and racing driver. ...
Count Zborowski with Chitty Bang Bang 1 at Brooklands Chitty Bang Bang was the informal name of a number of celebrated English racing cars, built and raced by Count Louis Zborowski and his engineer Clive Gallop in the 1920s, which inspired the book, film and stage musical Chitty Chitty Bang...
Plot summary
Caratacus Potts is an inventor who renovates an old car (known then as the Paragon Panther) which was previously a three-time Grand Prix winner, but had fallen into disrepair. After repairing the car, the Potts family head off to the beach for a picnic. Grand Prix motor racing has its roots in organised automobile racing that began in France as far back as 1894. ...
The family explores along the Dover coast in the car, and find a cave with some fake scary devices inside. At the back of the cave is a store of armaments and explosives. The family lights a fuse and hurries out of the cave just before it explodes. , Dover is a major channel port in the English county of Kent. ...
Then the gangsters/gun-runners who own the ammunition arrive. They tie up the parents in the Chitty and leave with the children to go to France. The car comes to life and the Potts chase the bandits across the English Channel to France. Satellite view of the English Channel The English Channel (French: , the sleeve) is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the island of Great Britain from northern France and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. ...
There they meet a French baker and his wife, and they all end up capturing the bandits and handing them over to the police. Chitty then flies the Potts family back to England, with some special French fudge that the baker knew the recipe for. (The recipe is printed at the back of the last chapter.)
Film, TV or theatrical adaptations
Film The story was made into a musical film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 1968. Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The film is completely different from the book. During the opening credits, we see highlights from the illustrious racing career of a car which won just about every race it took part in, until one day, it mysteriously crashed. The car is now in an old junkyard, and Caratacus Potts' two young children, Jeremy (Adrian Hall), and Jemima (Heather Ripley), like to pretend it is a racing car. But it looks as if those happy days are soon to come to an end, because a thoroughly unpleasant man has offered to buy the car, and the junkyard owner, Coggins, cannot refuse his offer. The children say that they will ask their father to buy the car. On the way home they meet the beautiful Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes), who insists on giving them a lift. We discover that the Potts live in an old windmill, where Truly Scrumptious meets the children's eccentric Grandpa Potts, and their father, Caratacus. She argues with Caratacus about how the children should be in school, and that he should not be allowing them to run wild in the streets. He becomes furious with her for interfering, and telling him how to raise his children, and sends her away with a fly in her ear. After Truly has gone, the family have dinner, reflecting on their happy family life, ("You Two"). Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts. ...
Caratacus discovers that the "sweets with holes in", which he invented, can make whistling sounds, when Edison, the family dog, tries to eat one of them. He takes the sweets to a local confectioner's, where we learn that the owner, Lord Scrumptious, is Truly's father. He initially turns his nose up at the sweets, but Caratacus and Truly persuade him to reconsider, ("Toot Sweets"), and it looks as if Potts has struck gold, and could make enough money to buy the car, when all the dogs in the village suddenly appear, attracted by the sound of the whistling sweets, and wreak havoc in the sweet shop, resulting in Lord Scrumptious refusing to buy the sweets after all. Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious and Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang singing Toot Sweets. Toot Sweets is a song/musical number from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the 1968 musical motion picture. ...
Caratacus sings his children to sleep, ("Hushabye Mountain"), then goes to the local funfair, to try and make money for the car with another of his inventions, an automatic haircut machine. It goes badly wrong, but Caratacus joins a dance troupe to escape from Cyril, the furious victim of his machine ("Me 'Ole Bamboo"), and his fellow dancers are so impressed with his performance, that they give him all the money they collect from the audience. Caratacus returns home in triumph with the car.
Cartacus fixes the car, and the family go for a drive, ("Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"). They meet Truly along the way, and they all go for a picnic on the beach. The children have already grown fond of Truly, and she admits that she has become fond of them as well, ("Truly Scrumptious"). After the picnic, the children ask Caratacus to tell them a story, and he begins to tell a tale of the villainous Baron Bomburst, the ruler of Vulgaria, who is out to steal Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The rest of the film is an enactment of the story Caratacus tells. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang reveals its ability to float, and helps the family escape the first attempt by the Baron to steal the car, ("Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Nautical Reprise)") Here, fantasy and reality blur slightly. Caratacus takes Truly Scrumptious home, and when he has left, she reveals that she has fallen in love with him, ("Lovely Lonely Man"). But, when the story is over, they are still on the beach. Perhaps this sequence is intended to show Truly's developing feelings for Caratacus Potts.
Baron Bonburst sends two Vulgarian spies to steal the car, but all their schemes are thwarted. Eventually, they mistakenly kidnap Grandpa Potts, thinking he is the inventor, and take him to Vulgaria. Terrified at first, Grandpa Potts soon adjusts to his new situation, and begins to enjoy it ("Posh!"). Caratacus, Truly and the children set off in pursuit of the kidnappers in Chitty, who can also fly. On arrival at the palace, Grandpa Potts is escorted into a workshop by the Baron, who tells him that he is expected to make the Baronial car float, with the help of six elderly inventors. The inventors assure Grandpa Potts that he will succeed, ("The Roses of Success").
Caratacus, Truly and the children arrive in Vulgaria, which is a dangerous place for Jeremy and Jemima, because children are banned - Baroness Bomburst (Anna Quayle) can't stand them. When the Vulgarians spy them from above, the Baroness immediately calls out the real villain of the film, the evil Child-Catcher (Robert Helpmann). Fortunately, a friendly toy-maker (Benny Hill), agrees to hide the children in his cellar, while he and Caratacus go to the Castle to try and rescue Grandpa Potts. Truly is left with the children, but when they complain of hunger, she goes off to try and buy food, and the Child-Catcher sees his chance and lures the children out of the cellar with free lollipops.
Truly sees the children being taken away and alerts Caratacus and the toy-maker. The children are brought before Baron and Baroness Bomburst, and later taken off to be locked away in a cell. Meanwhile, the Toy-Maker takes Caratacus and Truly to a sewer where all Vulgaria's children have had to be hidden away. The children are able to tell Caratacus the whereabouts of his children, and of Grandpa Potts, but then wish to know if Caratacus intends to help them as well. Caratacus and Truly comfort a frightened boy named Peter, ("Hushabye Mountain (Reprise)"), and decide to help free the other Vulgarian children from the sewers.
The next day dawns; it is Baron Bomburst's birthday. He and the Baroness sing a "romantic" duet, ("Chu-Chi Face") - romantic on the part of the Baroness, that is, as we soon see that the Baron's declarations of affection are fake - he attempts to kill the Baroness three times during the song, and has previously attempted to shoot her, when she was catapulted in the air by Chitty's ejector seat. The celebrations get underway. The Baron is bored, but the Baroness cheers him up by the summoning the toy-maker. He has two presents for the Baron; two moving dolls - Caratacus and Truly in disguise. The dolls sing and dance for the baron, ("Doll On A Music Box" / "Truly Scrumptious (Reprise)", but he becomes suspicious. Eventually, he overcomes his doubts, and dances with Caratacus to an instrumental version of "Truly Scrumptious". Under cover of this distraction, the children invade the castle and cause pandemonium. The Baron and Baroness attempt to escape by means of a rubbish chute, but slide straight into a cage, strategically positioned at the bottom of the chute. Truly and Caratacus find Jeremy and Jemima, are re-united with Grandpa Potts, and finally with Chitty. The Child-Catcher is surrounded by children, who lure him into a net. The family set off on a homeward journey on Chitty, and are waved off by the Vulgarians, who now look forward to a better life, now that children can live safely in the city.
We return to the beach, with Caratacus telling the last lines of the story. The children interrupt - "And Daddy and Truly were married...". There is an awkward pause, and Caratacus is clearly embarrassed, and abruptly says that they should go home. Caratacus tells Truly that they cannot be married - the social difference is too great. Truly is insulted.
At home, they find Lord Scrumptious and Grandpa Potts - it turns out that they were in the army together. Lord Scrumptious reveals that the sweets made by Caratacus are very popular with dogs. They have been re-christened "Woof Sweets", and are to be sold in the factory after all. Caratacus rushes off to find Truly, and we see a repeat of an earlier sequence - Truly drives into a lake and has to be rescued by Caratacus. They look into each others eyes for a moment, and then kiss - it is decided that they will marry after all. It is to be hoped that Truly keeps her maiden name - she certainly lives up to it!
1. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 2. You Two 3. Toot Sweets 4. Hushabye Mountain 5. Me Ol' Bamboo 6. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 7. Truly Scrumptious 8. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 9. Lovely Lonely Man 10. Posh! 11. Hushabye Mountain (Reprise) 12. The Roses of Success 13. Chu-Chi Face 14. Doll on a Music Box/Truly Scrumptious 15. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Finale) 16. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Main Title)
Theatrical versions On April 16, 2000 a stage musical based on the book and movie was directed by Adrian Noble with musical staging and choreography by Gillian Lynne at the London Palladium theatre. For full details on that production and subsequent productions see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (musical), starring Michael Ball. This version of the show closed in September 2005. is the 106th day of the year (107th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The London Palladium in 2004 The London Palladium is a 2,286 seat West End theatre located off Oxford Street in the City of Westminster. ...
Chitty the Musical is a stage musical based on the story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming and the 1968 film produced by Cubby Broccoli. ...
Michael Ball (born Michael Ashley Ball, 27 June 1962, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England) is a British actor and singer, best known for the song Love Changes Everything and musical theatre roles such as Marius in Les Misérables, Alex in Aspects of Love, and Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. ...
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Despite some initial problems with the mechanical flying Chitty used in the show, it has enjoyed a very successful run. A Broadway version of this show opened on April 28, 2005 at the Hilton Theatre in New York City. It was also nominated for, but lost, the following 2005 Tony Awards: Note on spelling: While most Americans use er (as per American spelling conventions), the majority of venues, performers and trade groups for live theatre use re. ...
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After closing in London, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang took to the road on its first ever UK European tour. The first stop on this was at the Sunderland Empire Theatre, where it previewed from December 9, 2005 and premiered on December 13, 2005. It will tour Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol, Southampton and Edinburgh. It closes in Southampton on 16th September 2007 and then travels to Singapore from 2nd November 2007 to 9th December 2007. The Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical is awarded to the actress who was voted as the best actress in a musical, whether a new production or a revival. ...
Raúl Esparza, Erin Dilly, Philip Bosco, Henry Hodges and Ellen Marlow in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Broadway Poster). ...
The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical is awarded to the actor who is voted the best non-starring actor in a musical, whether a new production or a revival. ...
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The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical is awarded to the actress who is voted the best non-starring actress in a musical, whether a new production or a revival. ...
Jan Maxwell (born November 20, 1956) is a Tony Award-nominated American stage and television actress. ...
The Tony Award for Best Scenic Design is the Tony Award given to a designer for outstanding set design of either a play or musical. ...
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Trivia - In the original novel by Fleming, Caractacus is not a widower; consequently, the adult female interest is represented by his wife Mimsie rather than "Truly Scrumptious." The family's adventure with Chitty takes them across the English Channel to France and involves them with a character named "Joe the Monster." By comparison, the musical adaptation transforms the original story considerably in a fairytale direction.
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's number plate number was GEN 11, apparently the closest to the word "genie" the UK motor vehicle registry would allow. However, by the time the film was made (1968), this UK Number Plate would have been available - as GEN 1E - as early as August 1967, when the 'E registration appeared - well before the film's launch, in December 1968. These are, incidentally, Bury (Lancashire) official registrations (both the original GEN 11, and the potential GEN 1E).
- "It's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" is a cheat for the PC-game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, that enables cars to fly. "CHITTYCHITTYBB" is a code from Grand Theft Auto 3 with similar effect.
Truly Scrumptious is a fictional character in the classic musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. ...
Satellite view of the English Channel The English Channel (French: , the sleeve) is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the island of Great Britain from northern France and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. ...
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