UK, 1968
145m
65mm film, filmed in Super Panavision, Technicolor, 2.20:1
70mm 6-Track, English
A British fantasy film directed by Ken Hughes.
Plot Summary
Eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts buys a broken down car from a junk yard for his two children to play with and transforms it into Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a flying car with a mind of its own.
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Directed by: Ken Hughes
Copyright Warfield Productions Inc. and Dramatic Features Inc. MCMLXVIII
MGM, Albert R. Broccoli presents
Produced by: Albert R. Broccoli
Associate Producer: Stanley Sopel
Screenplay by: Roald Dahl & Ken Hughes
Additional Dialogue by: Richard Maibaum
Book: Ian Fleming (credited only in a possessive above the title, i.e: Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
Director of Photography: Christopher Challis
Editor: John Shirley
Music & Lyrics by: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Sound Recorded by: John Mitchell, Fred Hynes
Colour Costume Design by: Elizabeth Haffenden, Joan Bridge
Special Effects: John Stears
Visual Effects: Roy Field *
Production Designed by: Ken Adam
Locations: Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany (castle scenes); Neuschwanstein, Bavaria, Germany (castle scenes); Turville Windmill, Buckinghamshire, England, UK; Rohrbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Cast
Dick Van Dyke (Caractacus Potts)
Sally Ann Howes (Truly Scrumptious)
Lionel Jeffries (Grandpa Potts)
Gert Frobe (Baron Bomburst)
Anna Quayle (Baroness Bomburst)
Benny Hill (toymaker)
James Robertson Justice (Lord Scrumptious)
Robert Helpmann (Child Catcher)
Barbara Windsor (blonde)
Davy Kaye (Admiral)
Alexander Dore (first spy)
Bernard Spear (second spy)
Stanley Unwin (Chancellor)
Peter Arne (Captian of Guard)
Heather Ripley as Jemima
Adrian Hall as Jeremy
Desmond Llewelyn (Coggins)
Victor Maddern (junkman)
Arthur Mullard (big man)
Ross Parker (chef)
Alternative Titles
Tschitti Tschitti Bäng Bäng – Germany
Links
See also
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
Arizona Dream (1993)
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Radio Flyer (1992)
Extracts included in
I Love Christmas (2001)
Screen Test: 13 January 1971
Screen Test: 20 October 1981
References
Periodicals
- The Daily Cinema no.9466 (3 January 1968) 11 – note (In production)
- The Daily Cinema no.9466 (3 January 1968) 7 – note (Bang Bang)
- The Daily Cinema no.9469 (10 January 1968) 9 – note (In production)
- Monthly Film Bulletin (1969) p.24 – review, credits
- Time 27 December 1968 – review
Books
- Armchair Cinema: A History of Feature Films on British Television, 1929-1981 by Sheldon Hall pp.185, 256
- Elliot’s Guide to films on Video by John Elliot p.146 – mini review, credits
- Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby p.174
- Feature Films, 1960-1969: A Filmography of English-language and Major Foreign-language United States Releases by Harris M. Lentz III p.69
- Film Review 1970-71 by F. Maurice Speed (ed) p.217
- Kine & TV Year Book 1970 p.108
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.64 – credits
- The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy by David Pringle (general ed.) p.66 – credits, review
- Video Dungeon: The Collected Reviews by Kim Newman pp.340-341
- World Filmography 1968 pp.193-195
Other sources
- BFI Southbank Guide December 2019 p.50 – illustrated listing
