Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 British musical film loosely based on Ian Flemings novel ChittyChittyBangBang The Magical Car. The films script is by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes and its songs by the Sherman Brothers. The song Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was nominated for an Academy Award.
Set in the 1910s, the story opens with a montage of European Grand Prix races in which a particular car appears to win every race. In the final race, the car swerves to avoid a girl and a dog, loses control, crashes, and catches fire, bringing its racing career to an end. The car ends up in an old garage in rural England, where two children, Jeremy Adrian Hall and Jemima Potts Heather Ripley, have grown fond of it. They are told by a junkman that he intends to buy the car from the garage owner for scrap. The children who live with their widowed father Caractacus Potts Dick Van Dyke, an eccentric inventor, and his equally peculiar father implore their father to buy the car before the junkman does, but he does not have the money. While playing truant, they meet Truly Scrumptious Sally Ann Howes, a beautiful upper class woman with her own motorcar. She brings them home to report their truancy to their father. Truly shows interest in Caractacus odd inventions, but he is affronted by her insistence that his children should be in school.One day, Caractacus discovers that the sweets produced by a machine he has invented can be played like a flute. He tries to sell the Toot Sweets to Trulys father, Lord Scrumptious James Robertson Justice, a major confectionery manufacturer. He is almost successful until the factory is overrun by dogs responding to the whistle. He takes his automatic haircutting machine to a carnival to raise money, but it accidentally ruins the hair of a large, angry customer. He eludes the man by joining a songanddance act, accidentally stealing the show he earns enough in tips to buy the car. Potts rebuilds the car in his own eccentric way, using such materials as an old boat hull and a chimney breast. He nicknames the car Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for the noises its engine makes. In the first trip in the car, Potts, the children, and Truly go for a picnic on the beach, where Truly becomes very fond of the Potts family and vice versa. Caractacus tells the
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