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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Film Overview

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 feature film based on the book by Roald Dahl and directed by Ken Hughes. It starred Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts, Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious, and Lionel Jeffries as Grandpa Potts. The film was nominated for an Oscar and received mixed reviews from critics, though it was popular with audiences and is considered one of the greatest family films.

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Film Overview

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 feature film based on the book by Roald Dahl and directed by Ken Hughes. It starred Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts, Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious, and Lionel Jeffries as Grandpa Potts. The film was nominated for an Oscar and received mixed reviews from critics, though it was popular with audiences and is considered one of the greatest family films.

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  • Title Page
  • General Background
  • Fun Stuff
  • Issues of Representation
  • Cast
  • Reviews
  • Clips

Chitty Chitty Bang

Bang.
Sophie Gannon
General Background
✲ CCBB is a 1968 feature film
✲ Script by Roald Dahl and Ken
Hughes.
✲ Director by Ken Hughes
✲ Produced by Albert R Broccoli (co
producer of James Bond.
✲ Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 2
nominations
Fun Stuff
✲ Voted number 14 in Channel 4's (UK)
"Greatest Family Films".
✲ Director Ken Hughes reportedly hated the
finished film
✲ The musical number 'Toot Sweets' took three
weeks to film and involved 38 dancers, 40
singers, 85 musicians and 100 dogs
✲ TOP QUOTE - ‘There are children here
somewhere. I can smell them.’ Guess who?
Issues of representation which face
of Britain is this?

✲ The colors of the floating Chitty - purple,


green, and white - were the colors of
the women's suffrage movement of that
time. WIKI
Cast.
✲ Dick Van Dyke...Caractacus
✲ Potts Sally Ann Howes...
Truly Scrumptious.
✲ Lionel Jeffries...Grandpa Potts
Reviews
CLIPS.
✲ http://www.spout.com/films/Chitty
_Chitty_Bang_Bang/5984/1483/tr
ailers.aspx

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